Mary Beth Keenan
God Walks With the Brokenhearted
This time of year is riddled with dates that remind me of my brokenheartedness. Between the beginning of February and the beginning of...
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Katie Davis-Crowder
Dec 23, 20233 min read
Love Forever Being Born
In November of 2022, I found myself silently weeping in the lobby of the University of Chicago Hospital, having just concluded my 38th...
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Ellen Romer Niemiec
Nov 13, 20222 min read
Our Way to Joy
Today's Readings It took me a few rounds with the readings today. They just weren’t landing on my heart the way I hope Scripture always...
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Jessica Curbis
Sep 28, 20221 min read
Why do we suffer?
Today's Readings Jessica reflects suffering in light of the Book of Job.
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Jennifer Delvaux
Sep 4, 20223 min read
Jesus Didn't
Today’s Readings Hate our fathers and mothers, spouses and children, even our own lives. And take up our crosses. These lines are often...
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Jennifer Delvaux
Jul 10, 20223 min read
Our Choice
Today's Readings “It is something very near to you, already in your mouths and in your hearts; you have only to carry it out.”...
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Cynthia Lambert Cheshire
Dec 28, 20213 min read
"Why?" Is Definitely the Question
Today's Readings Merry Christmas! The traditions of the Church around this time feel positively utopian, don’t they? Throughout Advent,...
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Cynthia Lambert Cheshire
Oct 20, 20213 min read
Part 2 - Wounded, Scarred, and Radiant
Content Warning: medical trauma, birth trauma, mental health, suicidal ideation This is the second part in a 2-part essay. For the first...
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Cynthia Lambert Cheshire
Oct 18, 20214 min read
Part 1- I Didn’t Hear a Cry: PTSD, Birth Trauma, and the Road of Healing
Content Warning: medical trauma, birth trauma Oddly enough, I thought about Angelina Jolie on the operating table. Years before, I’d read...
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Micole Amalu
Sep 15, 20213 min read
In Our Heaviness
Life is heavy and I’m not okay. The emotional impact of the past two years of infertility has caught up with me. The loss of our unborn...
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Patty Breen
Aug 9, 20212 min read
A Woman for All Women
The older I get, the more I appreciate the rich heritage of female examples that I come from. My great-great grandmothers who emigrated...
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Rose Miola
Aug 8, 20212 min read
This is enough, Lord!
Today’s Readings “This is enough, Lord! There have been times when I just want to say that. When I am witness to extreme pain,...
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Caroline Head
Aug 1, 20212 min read
The True Bread from Heaven
Today’s Readings Sometimes when we read the Bible or hear Scripture at Mass, we can feel disconnected or that the events we are hearing...
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Micole Amalu
Jun 27, 20213 min read
A Church that Loves
Today’s Readings “I’m useless.” “My mental illness makes me a burden.” “Until I’m healed, I don’t have anything to offer those around...
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Jessica Grima Jewett
May 20, 20213 min read
Still...You Carry Us
My God, My God, how majestic is your name in all the earth! I will glory in the Lord all my earthly days; Let the praise of God’s name be...
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Rakhi McCormick
Apr 29, 20213 min read
Give Light to Every Sorrow
Oh Lord Who created the heavens and the earth and all they contain Whose hand crafted every fiber of every being Who sees and knows every...
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Caroline Head
Apr 25, 20212 min read
The Rejected Good Shepherd
Today's Readings Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good, His mercy endures forever! In today’s first reading, St. Peter proclaims...
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Cynthia Lambert Cheshire
Apr 22, 20212 min read
What happened to the lilies
What happened to the lilies outside the Tomb When Easter morning was over? After witnessing the Resurrection, Did they simply fade away?...
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Cynthia Lambert Cheshire
Apr 11, 20213 min read
Jesus is Compassionate...Again
Today's Readings Thomas, called Didymus, one of the Twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. So the other disciples said to him, “We...
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Cynthia Lambert Cheshire
Mar 18, 20213 min read
Guided to Grace
This morning I had a rare opportunity for a prayer time, courtesy of the dog. She woke my husband and me up promptly at 6 am, panting and...
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