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What You DO Matters
Yes, ma’am. That’s what you say, preferably with a smile. If you can’t manage a smile, at least don’t roll your eyes or sigh heavily, no matter what you’re asked...
Calling on Angels
We often forget there's a war being waged all around us. An easy-to-dismiss, largely unseen war between good and evil. Yet we're smack dab in the middle of this epic...
You Are an Apostle to the Secular World
In graduate school, one of my required classes was Pauline Literature. The priest who taught loved Saint Paul something mighty fierce; to the point he would dress in costume (complete...
You Are Not Your Past
“Whoever is in Christ is a new creation: the old things have passed away; behold, new things have come.” (2 Corinthians 5:17) Today is the feast day of Saint Mary...
What's Your Revolution?
Much ink has been spilled this year over "the Benedict Option," Rod Dreher's sweeping cultural assessment adjuring Christians to create and invest in life-giving physical communities and to dig down...
Love, Not the Law, Saves Us
I entered the Catholic Church as a young adult after a self-imposed exile from my childhood faith. When I told a friend of my decision, a furrow appeared between her...
God Wants Your Heart for Lent
Ash Wednesday First Reading: Joel 2:12-18 Even now, says the LORD, return to me with your whole heart, with fasting, and weeping, and mourning; Rend your hearts, not your garments,...
Be, Not Do
Tuesday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time First Reading: Sirach 2:1-11 My son, when you come to serve the LORD, stand in justice and fear, prepare yourself for trials....
He Rewrote the Rules
Memorial of Saint Scholastica, Virgin First Reading: Genesis 3:1-8 Now the serpent was the most cunning of all the animals that the LORD God had made. The serpent asked the...
