Reaching Out
In August, my husband and I went to a baseball game in the city with a friend of ours. Before the game, we went and grabbed some barbecue food at...
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Persistence in Prayer
Have you ever given into someone’s request because that person wouldn’t stop asking? Think about it for a few seconds. Maybe your son asked you for an extra piece of...
Keep Your Eyes on God
Today’s Gospel Reading is not the easiest one out there but sometimes a dose of reality is needed to help us keep proper perspective in our lives. It reminds me...
The Hurt of Rejection
I love the fact that God gives us best friends. Who are your best friends? Who do you share your hopes and dreams, fears and worries, funny stories, and failings...
Renewed in the Spirit
Most of us are familiar with the social treatment of lepers in the time of Christ and throughout history. At that time their bacterial infections were incurable, and they were...
About Those High Standards
Readings like today's—the ones that urge us to go above and beyond—give me a little bit of a guilt complex. Saint Paul, who authored the First Reading, might've had a...
Letting Resentment Die Out
Today's Gospel is haunting. It haunts all of us, mothers, sisters, daughters, friends. Forgiveness; sinning; faith. It is Christ, Our Savior, telling us we have to get over ourselves and...
Cleaning House
Saturday is my chore day. It’s the day I can do all the things I don’t have time to do during the week, like cleaning the bathrooms, vacuuming, and mopping...
I've Been Shaken
It’s like today’s readings were screaming at me. It’s as if God himself was banging down my door, shaking me, and telling me to open my eyes. It’s like...
Which Crown Will I Embrace?
The readings today are powerful as always. But it is the First Reading that really grabs me with its inherent contradictions. Saint Paul tells the Philippians that his "joy and...
Gaining Christ
We live in a world obsessed with success. Blaring messages of perfection and so-called true satisfaction beckon to us. Magazine covers and Pinterest offer us the steps to obtaining...
No More Pining Away
Today’s Gospel Reading is one that can be hard for some to manage. As a convert to Catholicism, I hold it dear because I chose to leave my roots and...
