Bloom where you’re planted. I get that advice a lot. I just moved again this weekend for the sixteenth time...

I didn't realize how much time I wasted during the day deliberating over choices until I paid closer attention to...

Have you seen The Quiet Place? That movie got to me! If you haven’t seen it, spoiler alert! (You’ve been...

Jesus: “Whoever is angry . . . will be liable to judgment. . . . and whoever says, 'You fool,'...

Have you ever imagined walking a mile in Elijah’s shoes? The story of Elijah in today’s first reading (1 Kings...

"Please, Mom, help me untie this knot." She looked earnestly and helplessly at me with her big brown eyes. I...

Be a good, quiet girl because nobody likes a loud girl, I was told. Wow, you sure are eating that...

With each passing year, I am more acutely aware of the brevity of life. I do not want to fear...

"They did not know that I was their healer," says the Lord in the First Reading. (Hosea 11:3) This got...

I’ve always hated having the phrase KISS tossed at me. Have you heard this acronym before? Meaning “Keep It Simple...

Man, those Sadducees were tough. They really thought they could trip up the Lord our God with their legalistic questions....

The deadline was that day, I still wasn’t feeling well, and after numerous paragraphs I’d written and then erased (including...

There was a time in my younger life when I considered leaving the Catholic faith and joining a different Christian...

My family and I live in a very rural place and belong to a very tiny parish where there are...

I know this feeling well: it starts as a burning sensation in my stomach and within moments I can feel...

So much happens in today's Gospel! The fig tree is cursed and withered, the money changers and dove sellers are...

On Ash Wednesday / Valentine's Day I found myself en route to work, hot tears stinging my eyes as I...