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Wild, Uncontrollable Grace
Today is the feast day of Saint Padre Pio. Among my Catholic friends, devotion to this modern Italian saint is bountiful. Constantly, I hear sweet bon mots from his teachings...
Sow Imperfectly
My husband jokes that I have a black thumb, because every time I try to grow an herb, it dies. I plant flower seeds and they don’t grow, or they...
Painful Truth of the Mirror
STOP SCREAMING FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. (Picture me screaming.) It was one of those days. Everyone was moody and tired and defiant. The four-year-old was whining . . ....
Whys and Hows of Living Out Our Faith
My earliest memories of faith playing a role in my life harken back to being tucked into bed as a toddler, hearing my dad sing me another verse of "Jesus...
An Impossible Standard?
The world feels so loud lately. If we can’t prove someone else wrong through superior reasoning, can we do it through superior volume or more exclamation points? Even Christians are...
You Matter Here
I felt it tear. As my feet met the hardwood floor, the pain reverberated throughout my body like a tidal wave. But the crowd! The crowd was watching. They were...
Healing in the Eucharist
In today’s Gospel, we hear the words we repeat at every Mass just before receiving Communion. “Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof, but only...
The Lord is My Help!
Recently, someone I know surprisingly and suddenly offloaded her anger onto me with a whole host of hurtful and unwarranted attacks. Out of nowhere, and for no understandable reason, I...
The Comfort of a Mother
I have never seen a person die. The closest I have come was seeing my Grandpa Breen in hospice care the night before he died. He was semi-unconscious as I...
The Cross Doesn't End with Death, but Leads to New Life
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. With these words, we trace the shape of the cross over our bodies. The Father...
Ask and Then Listen Closely
In today's psalm, we pray that God will guide us, and in the Gospel, Jesus pretty much does exactly that: He lays out the law of Love for how we...
Saint Paul TRIED to Warn You, But You Got Married Anyway
Oh, Saint Paul, you crack me up. Always truthful, never one to mince words. I like to imagine him patting a distraught young wife on the hand as she tearfully...
