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Patty Breen
Aug 3, 20242 min read
Breakfast and Eucharist
A number of years ago I went to a First Communion Mass and the priest offering the homily made it very relatable to the children in ways...
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Sue Delvaux
Jul 20, 20242 min read
Gathering the Remnant
I wonder if today’s reading from the Prophet Jeremiah was applied to today’s Church how we would fare. I don’t think we would do very...
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Jocelyn E. Collen
Jul 13, 20243 min read
Shaking It Off
The story of the disciples being sent out two by two, without taking anything with them, is Good News! The Good News is that we don’t...
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Jennifer Delvaux
Jul 6, 20243 min read
Complacency, Complicity, and the Call
Prophets feel like something set solidly in the past. They have their time period – just like horse drawn carriages or gladiators or oil...
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Sara Spittler
Jun 29, 20242 min read
Vision
When we are children, we imagine endless possibilities for our play. With our imagination, we can be astronauts, chefs, royalty,...
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Jessica Grima Jewett
Jun 15, 20242 min read
Teaching in the Footsteps of Christ
If I tell the story of how I came into ministry, I can tell you what time of the year it was, where I was standing, and what I was doing....
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Katie Davis-Crowder
Jun 8, 20243 min read
The Fall
As a high school theology teacher and new mother, I often find myself revisiting biblical stories that I have heard and read hundreds of...
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Kelly Sankowski
Jun 1, 20243 min read
Wrestling with Blood
My two-year-old son doesn’t understand much about our faith yet, but he knows that the shape of a cross is associated with Jesus. One...
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Maura Rocks
May 26, 20242 min read
Experiencing the Trinity in Community
Trinity Sunday can at once feel both mundane and inaccessible. We call upon the name of the Trinity in our prayer so often that the...
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Jennifer Delvaux
May 18, 20243 min read
Pentecost Is Terrifying
Pentecost is terrifying. The Holy Spirit is terrifying. They are terrifying in the same way that shaking your principal’s hand or the...
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Kelly Sankowski
May 11, 20242 min read
Adjusting Expectations
As someone 2,000+ years removed from Christ’s death and resurrection, I can find it easy to chuckle at the apostles’ lack of...
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Jocelyn E. Collen
May 4, 20243 min read
You are My Friend, You’re Special to Me
F-R-I-E-N-D. We all know what that spells. Friends are the best gift we can have. Friendship can get us through any sorrow, hardship,...
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Allison Bobzien
Apr 27, 20242 min read
Roots
Growing up I found this passage of the gospel concerning the vines and the branches to be fairly straightforward. Then I began...
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Josie Diebold
Apr 13, 20242 min read
Commitment to Collective Liberation
In Heather McGhee’s book, The Sum of Us, she tells the story of the drained public pool. In the 1920s and 1930s, there were massive...
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Katie Davis-Crowder
Apr 6, 20244 min read
Some Mercy Now
“MERCY is NOT table fry sharing!” Almost twenty years after leaving our Mercy high school, my best friend and I still exchange this...
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Jennifer Delvaux
Mar 23, 20243 min read
Cobblestones, Grace, and Comfortable Shoes
The strangest Palm Sunday experience I ever had was when I somehow ended up as a lector at the Mass with Pope Benedict several years ago....
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Sara Ann Conneely
Mar 17, 20242 min read
Trouble and Glory
Today’s Gospel is particularly difficult to read and reflect on; Jesus predicts his own death, says that those who wish to serve him must...
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Jessica Grima Jewett
Mar 10, 20242 min read
The Light of God
Even though today is the fourth Sunday of Lent, to most of the world it is just another day. Another Sunday to get laundry done, make...
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Mary Beth Keenan
Mar 2, 20242 min read
Listening for God's Voice
Today’s Responsorial Psalm is a personal favorite: “If today you hear God’s voice, harden not your hearts”. My preference for this Psalm...
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Erika Tate
Feb 24, 20242 min read
Being Comfortable with the Uncomfortable
The Old Testament reading this week is the well-known story of “the binding of Isaac.” Abraham has been told by God to bring his only...
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