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Looking with Love
The readings today feel like a divine whack with a two-by-four from the Holy Spirit. Whack! Boom! Ouch! One of the things I have most struggled with in living...
Transfiguration in the Everyday
Over half a century ago Richard Wilbur wrote a poem called “Plain Song for Comadre” about a woman who cleans a church. ...it is seventeen years Come tomorrow That Bruna...
Upping The Ante
There they are, old friends from college. Not really friends, we still run in the same circle, though. Insensitive during our years of infertility, un-congratulatory when we finally did have...
Because You Are a Superhero, That’s Why
Today’s readings from Ezekiel and Matthew can be pretty well summed up by another familiar Bible verse, Luke 12:48: “To whom much has been given, much will be required.” Perhaps...
Faith in Action
Act, and God will act. Saint Joan of Arc It is the year 2015. We live in the "future," a time when almost everything happens at the push of a...
What Does God Really Want from Me
‘Tis the season for Catholics everywhere to mark our heads with ash, give up chocolate, eat fried fish on Fridays, and feel generally grouchy from caffeine withdrawal. It’s the time...
Letting God's Word Fall
Have you ever spoken and felt like your words fell on deaf ears? Maybe it was in the context of a request to a child: "First-name-middle-name-last-name, I asked you to...
Because You Love
Rules, so many rules. At first glance, you, too, will probably notice today’s readings are chock full of rules. Of laws to be adhered to. Of actions we are to...
Less is More
How is your Lent going, so far, sisters? Do you, like me, get frustrated with yourself sometimes because you feel like you should be doing a whole lot more? Do...
We Are All Tax Collectors
When I was seven, a classmate accused me of stealing her bracelet. In fact, she had given it to me earlier that day and I, in turn, donated it to...
WHY?
Why do you fast? Fasting is both an Old Testament and New Testament practice. We mostly look to it as imitating Christ's 40 days of temptation and trial in the...
Choose Life
You already did it today. When you rolled over and kissed your husband good morning. Or when you threw on that old bathrobe and trooped down the hall to feed...
