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Today is the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. Today, we celebrate the fact that a tiny red newborn—delivered in less than desirable circumstances to a young peasant girl from the backwoods town of Nazareth—was no ordinary baby. And as such,…
The other week I took my son for a checkup at our faith-based family practice, where we are very (very) lucky to see wonderful doctors who share our values. Our family deals with a number of different issues (rare anxiety…
Readings like today’s—the ones that urge us to go above and beyond—give me a little bit of a guilt complex. Saint Paul, who authored the First Reading, might’ve had a ton of zeal and passion, but my personality is quite…
“Leave the dead to bury their own dead.” I don’t know about you, but whenever I hear this verse I get all indignant and think, Where is your compassion, Jesus?! This man just lost his father! Don’t you care?!? Technically, his…
Today is the Feast of the Archangels. We tend to see pictures and representations of angels everywhere in our culture, but we don’t often think about them as a real, constant presence in our lives. I certainly didn’t, at least until one afternoon…
“Herod said…’but who is this about whom I hear such things?’” In today’s gospel, King Herod is the poster boy for letting a narrow perspective cloud important judgment. (Not that we can relate… right?). He is, in a word, perplexed….
“For God so loved the world that He gave his only Son…” John 3:16, ESV Most of us have heard this gospel verse so many times that it’s easy to gloss over the magnitude of exactly what God gave us….
“Mary set out in those days and traveled to the hill country in haste . . . where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth.” // Luke 1:39-40 What’s on your gift list this year? My screen lit…
My eyelids drooped as I scrolled well past bedtime, when suddenly I caught my reflection in the dresser mirror—face sallow in the harsh glow of my phone. I half laughed, half sighed in shame. Switching off my phone, I firmly…
My stomach tightened into a hard, sick knot as the news flashed across the screen. Another tragedy of incomprehensible evil. More precious lives lost. Hundreds of souls caught unaware. A single thought brought consolation: That’s who I prayed for this…
I opened the fridge and sighed heavily. I had to eat, but the prospect brought me zero joy. I pushed aside the tantalizing items I’d gotten the rest of the family and, feeling sorry for myself, grabbed a few of…
I pulled up the calendar to check the kids’ after-school schedule, subconsciously praying, “Please, Jesus, no hockey today . . . or at least let it be at the close rink!” Yet as the schedule came into focus, I saw…
