Jessica Grima Jewett
Beauty in the Waiting
Have you ever lost patience in waiting for something? A bride waiting for her wedding day, a new mom waiting to give birth to her child,...
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Sara Ann Conneely
Nov 33 min read
You Are Not Far
Today’s Gospel is a very familiar passage stating the Greatest Commandment. The story, in particular the restating of the Shema, reminds...
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Patty Breen
Oct 293 min read
All God's Children Matter
We are days from what is predicted to be an even closer presidential election, which feels frightening to even acknowledge. The...
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Laura G. Hancock
Oct 122 min read
When Truth and Love Expand
Do we want the answers we already know? Or do we want to be loved into ever-expanding truth? “Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with...
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Jenny Snarski
Oct 83 min read
The Invitation to Dialogue: listen!
While I usually dread election season, this year my mindset has been almost completely transformed. This is almost completely thanks to a...
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Rachel Conrad Carlson
Sep 12 min read
The True Light and Life
If truth be told, I have to admit that I am exhausted. I mean, deeply physically, emotionally and mentally done in. Stretched beyond my...
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Kathleen Clark
Aug 242 min read
We Walk by Faith
Today’s readings are full of timeless one-liners in the Christian playbook. Joshua makes the iconic declaration that “As for me and my...
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Patty Breen
Aug 32 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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Rachel Conrad Carlson
Jul 223 min read
Mary Magdalene
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...
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Jessica Grima Jewett
Jun 152 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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Kelly Sankowski
Jun 13 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 262 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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Jocelyn E. Collen
May 43 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 272 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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Jane Aseltyne
Mar 293 min read
The Tension of Good Friday
I'll never forget walking into church that Good Friday in 2013. I was in RCIA and experienced the Triduum for the first time as an almost...
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Jennifer Delvaux
Mar 233 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 172 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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Erika Tate
Feb 242 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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Ellen Romer Niemiec
Feb 142 min read
In My Rent Garments
I am struggling to imagine a world reconciled to God. It is not the world I see around me. The horrific attacks on Israel on October 7th....
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Kathleen Clark
Feb 22 min read
The Gift of Presence
Since I finished my undergraduate degree almost nine years ago, I have moved a lot. Across four cities, seven apartments, and six...
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