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I laughed when I read today’s first reading. This excerpt from Elijah has been the subject of several memes (if your algorithm looks like...
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I laughed when I read today’s first reading. This excerpt from Elijah has been the subject of several memes (if your algorithm looks like...
I have recently learned that “rumination” is a clinical term; I have long used the word as a synonym for “contemplate,” for example...
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...
Today we celebrate three of Jesus’s closest friends: Lazarus, who is described as “the one you love” (John 11:3); Mary, who performs the...
As I write this piece celebrating Mary Magdalene on her feast day, I keep thinking how beloved she must be to so many of us who write for...
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...
“But Mary treasured all these things, pondering them in her heart” (Luke 2:19), reflects Mary’s heart as Our Lady of Mount Carmel....
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...
Prophets feel like something set solidly in the past. They have their time period – just like horse drawn carriages or gladiators or oil...
When we are children, we imagine endless possibilities for our play. With our imagination, we can be astronauts, chefs, royalty,...
So whoever is in Christ is a new creation: the old things have passed away; behold, new things have come. I am freshly home from a...
Like many college freshmen, I wasn’t entirely sure what I was signing up for when I began at DePaul University. While I knew about other...
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....
As a high school theology teacher and new mother, I often find myself revisiting biblical stories that I have heard and read hundreds of...
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...
I was standing in a Mexican town square, looking at the facade of a church, when my phone pinged. I was feeling homesick during my study...
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...
Mary is a woman who has known grief. Certainly as a mother, her own child was killed. But also just as a woman.
Pentecost is terrifying. The Holy Spirit is terrifying. They are terrifying in the same way that shaking your principal’s hand or the...
May 13th is the Feast of Our Lady of Fatima. I started reading everything that I could find on apparitions or visions of the Blessed...