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That Gut-Punch Feeling
"My heart is moved with pity for the crowd." // Mark 8:2 I remember the first time I began leading a woman through the annulment process as a trained lay...
Ephphatha! Be Opened!
“Ephphatha!” (that is, “Be opened!”) // Mark 7:34 As a child, I suffered from horrible ear infections. I would wake in the mornings with blood-stained pillows, just screaming from the...
What I Can't Control
She came and fell at his feet. // Mark 7:25 The overhead light in my car flashed off as an indication that I had been sitting motionless in my driveway...
This Gospel Is Also for You
"But what comes out of the man, that is what defiles him. From within the man, from his heart, come evil thoughts, unchastity, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, licentiousness,...
A Lovely Limestone Dwelling Place
How lovely is your dwelling place, Lord, mighty God! // Psalm 84:3 I followed my children and husband from the car, over the overgrown weeds in the grass, through a...
Reaching Out to Meet His Healing Touch
"Whatever villages or towns or countryside he entered, they laid the sick in the marketplaces and begged him that they might touch only the tassel on his cloak; and as...
Handing On What is Important
“I handed on to you as of first importance what I also received.” // 1 Corinthians 15:3 Walls of snow lined the sides of the newly plowed streets as our...
Follow His Directions
“Come away by yourselves to a deserted place and rest a while.” // Mark 6:31 In today’s Gospel, we hear the desire of Jesus’ Sacred Heart. Sister, Christ wants us...
Remain Silent or Speak Truth
“It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.” // Mark 6:18 My stomach tightened. It was happening all over again. Another person offended? I tossed and turned...
His Delight, His Choice
Jesus summoned the Twelve and began to send them out two by two. // Mark 6:7 These past few months, the Lord has gently convicted me of my selfish habits....
God in the Little Moments
When they had fulfilled all the prescription of the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth. The child grew and became strong, filled...
They Ridiculed Him
“Then he put them all out.” // Mark 5:40 When I first began working with Ellie she described herself as “stuck.” It didn’t take long before she came to realize...
