Walking through the woods in late April, with my eyes strained to spot spring mushrooms, I was...
My mother, both of her sisters, and their mother all had breast cancer. My Aunt Emma Jean is the...
If we, westerners, had been in the Upper Room on the morning of Pentecost Day we would have had a hard time trying to sort things out and decipher God’s message. Not so for the disciples gathered in it with the Blessed...
It is another Monday morning. The weekend was great but not long enough. The hustle and bustle of the day has begun. You are rushing to get off to work to avoid the morning traffic. You have driven to work so many times...
The Gospel passage for the Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord (Luke 24:46-53) completes the Gospel of Luke. From the perspective of the disciples, it was the end of their course, semester, and training with the...
Many people have heard of the poem “The Charge of the Light Brigade” by Alfred Lord Tennyson, which commemorates the heroic but doomed attack of a British cavalry unit that suffered disaster while charging Russian...
Occurring during the inter-war period, those twenty years between the First and Second World Wars, the Spanish Civil War is not as well-known as it should be. For many, Picasso’s famous...
Once there was an unhappily married woman—we’ll call her Jane—who, at a young age, had married a handsome, dashing, but self-centered man we’ll call Alphonse. Her family and friends had warned her that Alphonse had a...
My brothers and sisters, you are called to have a radical new life of wonder and joy. You are called to be holy. We see this call to a joyful life in the Old Testament: Leviticus 20:26 “Therefore, you shall be holy; for...
Prayer can be like an hourglass at its narrowest point. At this point everything flows to it and everything flows from it. All flow is silent. Silence is a great help to listening. Listening to God is a little more...
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