Held Captive: St. Josephine Bakhita + Human Trafficking
In my former job, I accompanied groups of young adults to the U.S./Mexico border each year. The point of the trip was to serve as a pilgrimage to learn what...
The 2018 FOCUS Student Leadership Summit (SLS)
I spent my college years at a small state school without much of a Newman Center. I found some community at the Baptist Student Union, went to daily Mass when...
Unlikely Blessings: Looking for the Holy Family Today
The first Christmas I remember receiving Christmas cards addressed to me personally was the year I moved to Denver. Delighted by this very adult practice of sending and receiving Christmas...
How to Make Blessings Bags
Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home. - G.K. Chesterton Do I know the poor? Do...
Home for Christmas: Reaching Out to College Students During Holiday Break
Having a break is absolutely wonderful and completely necessary. We tend to be very busy people, constantly filling our schedule with things to do, ways to make money, people to...
Heavenly Peace: Returning to the Source
Every time we participate in Mass, our priests offer us the peace of Christ, we offer that heavenly peace back to those around us, and then we pray for peace...
Music from the Heart: Celebrating St. Cecilia
If you sing well, sing loudly in order to thank God for the gift He has given you. If you don’t sing well, sing even louder to remind Him of...
Worth Celebrating: St. Elizabeth of Hungary
I've met my own modern-day St. Elizabeth of Hungary. Mary Jo Copeland is the founder of Sharing and Caring Hands, based in the Twin Cities. Mary Jo began serving the...
Seven Ways to Thrive in Ministry Work
Hi, My Name is MaryRuth and I am addicted to saying "YES." I grew up in a congregational church where everyone had a role and most people had two or...
Suffering and Hope: My Experience at the Casa del Migrante
For the first time in all my 19 years of life, I left the United States and entered—body and soul—into a new country. I physically stepped through the San Ysidro...
Ten Tips for Starting a Parish Ministry
We never know why God has called us to do something, but when we feel His call, it is our duty as faithful servants to respond with a loving and...
My Greatest Education: A Year in Service
The bus doors opened. An impatient, tired, overnight bus driver sat behind the wheel and looked me over as I stood on the corner like a kid on the first...
