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Your Home Parish . . . in Rome
My eyes darted between the descending steps and the sweeping sunset as I skipped toward the bus and away from the archbasilica. An exhale forced a surrendered smile as I...
Will We Remember Like the Lord?
This time, the scroll through my phone was intentional. I was looking for old photos—specific ones—to add to a separate folder on my smartphone. My desire was to collect memories...
The Lily's One Day and Your One Life
“God created the pink ones because He knows it’s your favorite color,” I whispered to my daughter before she twirled amongst the flowers. We were visiting our local botanical gardens...
The One I Apologize to a Lot
Marriage has taught me the art of a humble, sincere apology. Even more, the art of humble, sincere forgiveness. Not many people require my endless forgiveness or my endless repentance....
Have You Also Been Burned?
He brings it up again during Adoration. The nudge, the call. Jesus has been tenderly stoking a near-absent fire in my heart. It once blazed, providing warmth and light, releasing...
Jesus Is Still Changing Me
Truly encountering Jesus in the Eucharist leaves one changed. It left me changed. A lifelong Catholic, I first encountered Christ in the Eucharist, as a Person, when I was sixteen....
The Divided Nation of My Heart
The cranked-up bass matched the thumping in my head. Two strangers too-comfortably flanked me as my friends passed red solo cups between them across the room. The haze of cigarette...
