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Discovering the Divine in the Everyday

The gift of centering prayer: finding unity through silence

July 7, 2025 • Silence

This Soul Seeing essay originally ran in the July 5, 2025, issue of the National Catholic Reporter: As I drove down the New York State Thruway, headed toward what promised to be an inspiring event on the legacy of Trappist Fr. Thomas Keating and the ...

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Sacred Heart and the path of love

June 11, 2025 • Life Lines

Growing up in the 1960s and ’70s, our home was adorned with a large portrait of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The same one hung in my grandmother’s home. Back ...

Remembering Joan of Arc

May 30, 2025 • saints

Happy Feast of St. Joan of Arc! When I was in a difficult stretch a few years back, Joan of Arc became my guide and inspiration. I had the image you see ...

Life in My 60s: Be you and be beautiful!

May 21, 2025 • Life in My 60s

Every woman should watch this. And maybe every man as well. I’ve been a fan of Andie MacDowell since the 1980s, when I carried a magazine picture of her in ...

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Spiritual Amnesia

May 19, 2025 • Give Us This Day

Published on May 17, 2025, in Give Us This Day: “Seeing is believing,” the old saying goes. Yet in today’s first reading and in the Gospel, those who have ...

A Church of Both/And

May 15, 2025 • Life Lines

When the white smoke appeared in St. Peter’s Square, the frenzy of the crowd could be felt from across the ocean and through our TV screen. Even without ...

Claiming the Easter joy that is our birthright

April 19, 2025 • Life Lines

Every Easter brings me back to my teenage years, when I was a leader of my parish’s high school youth group. For several years running, we planned outdoor ...

You can’t fail Lent! Begin again.

March 26, 2025 • Life Lines

We find ourselves now at the midway point of our Lenten desert experience. Ash Wednesday is far behind us, and Easter not yet in sight. Although we walk this ...

Lent podcast: New ways to approach old traditions

March 3, 2025 • podcasts

As we prepare to begin our Lenten journey, join me for a conversation about ways we can expand our experience of the traditional pillars of Lent: prayer, ...

Who is my neighbor? A radical Gospel teaching, then and now

February 20, 2025 • Life Lines

By Mary DeTurris Poust “But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, ‘And who is my neighbor?’ ” — Luke 10:29 One thing that has never been in question ...

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