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Take off your shoes, you holy and wondrous human
In today’s first reading from Exodus, Moses has spotted the burning bush on Mount Sinai. God calls to him by name. Moses answers “Here I...
Sarah Signorino
Mar 222 min read
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Transformed into Christ
Today we celebrate the second Sunday of Lent. As Catholics, tradition has taught us that the 40-day period of prayer, fasting, and...
Jessica Grima Jewett
Mar 152 min read
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The Wisdom of Ordinary Time
I am preparing this on a bitter cold day literally and figuratively in Illinois on Monday, January 20, 2025. It was -1° when I got going...
Sue Delvaux
Mar 12 min read
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Rooted by the Stream
In a very happy accident, I was assigned to write about today’s readings which just happen to include two verses from Jeremiah that I...
Rachel Conrad Carlson
Feb 163 min read
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Choosing Another Way
Today, we celebrate the Epiphany of the Lord. The Magi follow the star and offer their gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh to Mary,...
Josie Diebold
Jan 52 min read
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A Shepherd's Call: St. Oscar Romero’s Last Christmas Eve Homily & the Ongoing Hope of Palestinian Witness
By Alayna Carlock and Julia Morrow I was introduced to St. Oscar Romero years ago through the homily  that he delivered on Christmas Eve...
Julia Morrow
Nov 30, 20244 min read
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An Honest Thanksgiving
Here we are, the Sunday before Thanksgiving, surrounded by the chaos of this particular post-election season. Perhaps you find yourself...
Rachel Conrad Carlson
Nov 23, 20243 min read
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Liberating Love: The Generous Widow
As I write this, we are a few days away from the election, and I pray that the next President of the United States will govern with...
Jocelyn E. Collen
Nov 9, 20243 min read
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For all partnerships
I had the privilege this past Easter weekend of getting a last minute call from my parish to read at our Vigil Mass. The reading was the...
Sue Delvaux
Oct 5, 20242 min read
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Called to Teach
I often say that I fell into teaching. Despite having played teacher as a child (should have been a dead give away honestly), I never...
Jessica Curbis
Sep 28, 20242 min read
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Complacency, Complicity, and the Call
Prophets feel like something set solidly in the past. They have their time period – just like horse drawn carriages or gladiators or oil...
Jennifer Delvaux
Jul 6, 20243 min read
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God Walks With the BrokenheartedÂ
This time of year is riddled with dates that remind me of my brokenheartedness. Between the beginning of February and the beginning of...
Mary Beth Keenan
Feb 3, 20242 min read
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Make Me a Prophet
The mountain village of Ein Karem, southwest of Jerusalem, is the location of two churches in the Holy Land: The Church of the Visitation...
Patty Breen
Dec 9, 20232 min read
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Wait and Seek
Today's Readings We are so close to Advent we can practically smell it. Our readings today make that very clear. Even though we are still...
Jessica Curbis
Nov 11, 20232 min read
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Diversity in the Ordinary
Today's Readings Here we are amid the fall, closing in on the cusp of the great Advent season with many of us perhaps enrolled in...
Sue Delvaux
Oct 21, 20231 min read
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Not only...but also
It was my eighth-grade graduation, and I was standing alone in front of an audience. My small school had a tradition where each student...
Allison Bobzien
Sep 30, 20233 min read
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Be a Lifelong Learner
Today's Readings One of the greatest gifts of being a lover of books and good words, is the constant invitation to learn and grow. Books...
Patty Breen
Sep 3, 20232 min read
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Imperfect Attempts
Today's Readings "The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed with three measures of wheat flour until the whole...
Julia Erdlen
Jul 23, 20232 min read
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In Collaboration with Creation
Today's Readings The seed that falls in the fertile field, Under joy and showers, good fruit it will yield. The Word goes forth from the...
Jenny Snarski
Jul 16, 20233 min read
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When Singing of God’s Kindness is Hard
Today's Readings A few years ago I would have rolled my eyes at a Psalm like today’s. Wading through deep bouts of chronic depression and...
Mary Beth Keenan
Jul 2, 20232 min read
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