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A Tender Gift of Faith to Share
My grandfather was named after Saint Gabriel the Archangel. He grew up in a poor neighborhood overflowing with other immigrant families. When he was fourteen, he stopped attending the local...
The Reality of Spiritual Expectations for Advent
Navigating life through the midst of our own expectations can get interesting really quickly. For some reason I expect Advent to be a peaceful time, a time of cozy silence,...
Thief in the Night, Jesus' Return
We pulled into our garage at 11pm and carried our sleeping children to their beds. While my husband unpacked in our bedroom, I sat in the living room and nursed...
Dropping the Nets and the Sins, Too
I imagine the gaze of Jesus would have been captivating. His eyes revealed a love that would transform sinners into Saints, raise the dead to life, and make fishermen drop...
Kingdom Living
In today's First Reading (Daniel 7:2-14), Daniel saw thousands and thousands ministering to the Ancient One on His throne. Myriads of myriads attended to Him. Let’s pause here, and look...
Giving Thanks Every Day
Thanksgiving. A day to give thanks. To recognize the goodness that surrounds us. To truly take a moment to be grateful for all that our life holds. I pause today...
Law Review, Crucifixes, and the Real Gift
"[F]or I myself shall give you a wisdom in speaking that all your adversaries will be powerless to resist or refute" (Luke 21:15). The smell of recently disinfected classroom wafted...
A Deep Preparation for the Liturgical New Year
When January 1 rolls around, there's a lot of talk about New Year's resolutions—and I know that there are a lot of thoughts and feelings about them (some good, some...
Seriously Attached but Seriously Desiring Him
I painfully admit that I am seriously attached the stuff in my life. I can’t imagine losing it all. I don’t know why it is so hard for me to...
A New Kind of King
The taunts in today’s Gospel (Luke 23:35-43) are interesting ones. They are not false statements; Jesus IS the Chosen One, the Christ, the King. Can something that is true still...
God of the Fully Alive
I’ll be bold: I think I had a “mini-vision.” It happened on the Mount of Beatitudes. Some years after my divorce, on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, on our...
Worshipping His True Presence with All My Joy
I love walking into an empty, dark church, preferably one that smells of musty hymnals, beeswax, and aged incense that has seeped into the walls. I love seeing only the...
