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New Advent-Christmas reflection book

September 13, 2025 • Advent

My latest (and seventh) book of seasonal Scripture reflections — Waiting in Joyful Hope: Daily Reflections for Advent and Christmas 2025-2026 — has recently been released by Liturgical Press. Here are the opening paragraphs of my introduction to this new ...

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Staircase to heaven

July 24, 2025 • Life Lines

I have been blessed to go on numerous visits to the beautiful city of Rome, and each time I visited, I ran the gauntlet of typical tourist and pilgrim ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

New Advent/Christmas book available for pre-order from Liturgical Press

January 29, 2025 • Advent

Sure the Christmas season is still in our rearview mirror, but who doesn't love a reason to dip our toes into the next Advent and Christmas season a little ...

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