Caroline Head
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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Katie Davis-Crowder
Dec 12, 20213 min read
By Your Pupils You'll Be Taught
Today's Readings By the time these words are posted, it will have been just over two weeks since the death of Stephen Sondheim, the...
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Bernadette K. Raspante
Nov 14, 20213 min read
Cultivating Tenderness
Today's Reflection “Don’t smile until Christmas!” This (terrible) piece of advice was given to me and countless other new teachers as we...
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Cynthia Lambert Cheshire
Nov 11, 20213 min read
Our So-called Military Life
Writing about Veterans’ Day as a military spouse is always a tricky endeavour. Do I go sentimental? Patriotic? As a scholar, writing...
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Patty Breen
Nov 7, 20213 min read
Bits and Pieces
Today's Readings I am the type of personality that does not love the “messy middle” of situations. You know what I mean, that in-between...
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Micole Amalu
Oct 27, 20213 min read
Thérèse, Josephine, Jane, and Me
The first time a therapist used the word trauma to describe my suffering I was stunned. I had just made peace with even going to therapy!...
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Patty Breen
Oct 15, 20213 min read
The Patron Saint of Sassy Women
A game I like to play with people sometimes is asking the following question: “If you could be the patron saint of anything, what would...
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Caroline Head
Oct 13, 20213 min read
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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Ellen Romer Niemiec
Oct 6, 20214 min read
Kicking to the Surface
I had someone ask me not long ago why I decided to take medication for my mental health. I was already in therapy. Why did I suddenly...
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Micole Amalu
Oct 5, 20212 min read
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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Cynthia Lambert Cheshire
Oct 3, 20213 min read
Call Me Ezer
I find that most people are confused by me. “Hold on, you’re a Catholic campus minister,” they reply after I’ve introduced myself, “and...
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Rose Miola
Sep 26, 20212 min read
Keeping Up with the Joneses
Today's Readings We just spent a chunk of money on our lawn. We update and upgrade our various electronic devices. We spend money and...
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Ellen Romer Niemiec
Sep 22, 20213 min read
Make Way for Something New
I measure the seasons by my notebook of grocery lists. Cold salads, watermelon gazpacho, grilled vegetables and meats have been...
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Jessica Grima Jewett
Sep 20, 20213 min read
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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Caroline Head
Sep 19, 20212 min read
Who Is the Best?
Today's Readings When I was a classroom teacher, a grammar lesson on superlative adjectives was usually a humorous one. I would begin the...
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Jennifer Delvaux
Sep 17, 20213 min read
Heaven in the Cracks
“Dare to declare who you are. It is not far from the shores of silence to the boundaries of speech. The path is not long, but the way is...
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Cynthia Lambert Cheshire
Sep 13, 20215 min read
Change at God's Pace
This past weekend, while my husband and I worked on one yardwork chore or another, I wiped the sweat from my brow and stabbed my shovel...
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Patty Breen
Sep 12, 20212 min read
The Importance of Deep Questions
Today's Readings One of my favorite ways to pray and connect with each person of the Trinity is asking open-ended questions: Holy Spirit,...
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Jennifer Delvaux
Sep 5, 20212 min read
Beyond Our Sight
Today’s Readings The book of Isaiah is often a challenging one to read. The author doesn’t mince words when he sees fault and sin....
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Bernadette K. Raspante
Aug 29, 20213 min read
The "To-Do" List Tasks According to the Spirit
Today's Readings A while ago, I saw a New Yorker cartoon of a woman doing yoga and her mat was a massive to-do list. I have thought of...
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