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Mother Teresa, Widows, and Giving All We Have
One of my earliest memories as a little girl was watching a documentary on the work of Mother Teresa from the 1970s in my grandma's living room. I was captured...
A Toddler-Like Refusal of God's Word
"Whoever loves me will keep my word, and my Father will love him and we will come to him" (John 14:23). My son pushed back his chair, slammed down his...
To Love Little Is Our Call
I'm often looking for opportunities to love big. You know—random acts of kindness, a grand gesture, a real measure of sacrifice. If Our Lord tells us the greatest of all...
In Despair, His Mercy Shines Through
Today's reading from Tobit is heavy. Sarah, daughter of Raguel, was married seven times. Each husband died on the night of the wedding, causing eyebrows to raise about the character...
This Patient Father
My late teen years. Full of slammed doors, the silent treatment, and sassy remarks. It’s what you would imagine a teen girl being like, right? No, none of these actions...
Blessed Are You
"Elizabeth, filled with the Holy Spirit, cried out in a loud voice and said, “Most blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb" (Luke 1:41-42)....
All the Answers
I don’t remember her name, but I can still picture the freckles on her nose and the tight curls of her black hair. She was sharing about her life. An...
Jesus, Be My Joy and Peace
I find that my most stressful days tend to be the ones in which I cling to my own vision of how my day should look. A phone call here,...
Lineage and Legacy
As I look at the date on the calendar, I feel a squeezing in my heart. My oldest graduates from high school this weekend. The emotion isn’t so much pain...
Finding Courage in His Presence
I love the courage the blind man had in today's Gospel reading—to continuously call out for Jesus, to continuously ask for His pity, for His healing. He was desperate, and...
The Saint of Rib-Breaking Prayer
Today, we celebrate the feast day of Saint Philip Neri, a Saint who slowly but surely became one of my closest spiritual fathers. His humility, wit, and cheer were introduced...
Dozens Upon Dozens of Brothers
When my younger brother entered seminary, he was thirty-three and I was thirty-nine. As beautiful as his vocation was and as big a blessing as it was to my family,...
