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Free Will & Love
Today's Readings Jessica reflects on our free will in relationship with today's reading from Isaiah.
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Jul 13, 20221 min read
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Does God Get Angry?
Today's Readings Jessica reflects on the idea of an "angry" God.
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Jun 22, 20221 min read
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Creation Instead of Violence - International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia & Biphobia
Today is International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia. Here is what I feel it necessary to say. If you are a Catholic,...
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May 17, 20222 min read
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Joy to the World
Today's Readings Jesus never promised that it would be easy to follow His commandments. In fact, a brief glance at the first reading for...
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May 15, 20222 min read
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Do You Love Me?
The Gospel for today is packed with such rich imagery. From Peter leaping out of the boat into the sea to run to Jesus on the shore, to...
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May 1, 20223 min read
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Our Call - Wisdom's Voice
Today's Readings Jessica reflects on our Christian call to share God's love with the world.
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Apr 27, 20221 min read
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Seek the Joy in the Desert
Today's Readings Our world feels broken. The brokenness across the globe - the weight of the pandemic, of increasing prices, war across...
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Apr 3, 20222 min read
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Giving Up Manna
Today's Readings I wonder what manna tastes like. Did it start off as deeply satisfying, as if nothing could ever taste as good? How...
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Mar 27, 20222 min read
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The Golden Rule
Today's Reading Treat others the way you want to be treated. These words, a common refrain from parents and teachers of young children,...
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Feb 20, 20222 min read
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Blessed Are You, My Galentine!
Today's Readings This week, we encounter Luke’s shorter version of the Beatitudes. Here, we find ourselves “hashtag blessed,” though, not...
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Feb 13, 20222 min read
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Wisdom's Voice - A visit from the Queen of Sheba
Today's Readings This week, reflecting on the Queen of Sheba's visit with Solomon, Jessica invites us to find new ways to be breathless...
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Feb 9, 20221 min read
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Soaking Up Love
Today's Readings This week has the most popular scripture passage for weddings! “Love is patient, love is kind, it is not jealous, it is...
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Jan 30, 20222 min read
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Save Us From Ourselves, O Lord
Today's Readings Our Advent longing and waiting enters the final week today. As Christmas Day is next Saturday, this year we get to...
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Dec 19, 20212 min read
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An Advent of Justice & Love
Today’s Readings One of my favorite parts of Advent is the time we spend hearing from the prophets, especially Jeremiah and Isaiah....
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Nov 28, 20212 min read
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St. John Paul II: Missionary of Mercy
“There is nothing more man needs than Divine Mercy – that love which is benevolent, which is compassionate, which raises man above his...
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Oct 22, 20213 min read
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Rearranging Deck Chairs
Today's Readings What do you wish me to do for you? What a remarkable question to be asked by the Son of God, who is not even limited by...
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Oct 17, 20213 min read
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Boundaries, please!
In March 2020, I was teaching third grade in suburban Chicago. On Friday, March 13th, we were given directions to send home belongings...
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Oct 13, 20213 min read
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Wisdom and Faith
Today's Readings Today’s first reading begins with a wish familiar to many of us: pray to receive cautious guidance, plead and receive...
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Oct 10, 20212 min read
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Misery Met by Mercy
Today is the feast of St. Maria Faustina Kowalska. This young woman lived an incredibly simple, ordinary life. In the midst of that life,...
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Oct 5, 20212 min read
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The Ever-Changing Waves in Our Lives
If you are a person living on Earth, especially in the last year and a half, then at some point in time you have experienced change in...
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Sep 20, 20213 min read
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