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Discovering the Divine in the Everyday

On life’s journey, you may be entertaining angels unaware

March 9, 2024 • writing

This Soul Seeing column appeared in the March 9 issue of the National Catholic Reporter: Air travel is not for the faint of heart. Although I don't have a fear of flying, I do have a fear of pretty much everything else involved: getting through ...

2024 Italy pilgrimage—Rome to Venice

January 8, 2024 • Pilgrimage

Join me on the journey of a lifetime Sept. 30 to Oct. 11, 2024! La Dolce Vita: An Italian Pilgrimage of Food, Faith & Culture will take us from Rome to ...

Revolution, Not Resolution

December 31, 2023 • Give Us This Day

My feature essay from the January 2024 issue of Give Us This Day: A fresh span of twelve months stretches out before us now, like a blank canvas daring ...

The Risk of Christmas

December 22, 2023 • Advent

A Christmas poem written by Madeleine L'Engle in 1973 but sounding incredibly timely for all of us living in a troubled world today: This is no time for a ...

Angel of God, my guardian dear…

October 2, 2023 • Everyday Divine

Angel of God, my guardian dear, to whom God's love commits me here, ever this night, be at my side to light and guard, to rule and ...

Catching up to the curve of our own transformation

August 24, 2023 • Life Lines

The poet David Whyte says that most people are “living four or five years behind the curve of their own transformation,” refusing to accept a new season of ...

Miscarriage: love and loss 25 years later

August 6, 2023 • grief

My annual tribute to the baby I lost 25 years ago today, the baby I call Grace: For the past few days I’ve been looking at the numbers on the calendar, ...

Be Here Now Retreat

July 28, 2023 • retreats

Early bird pricing for this weekend retreat expires on July 29. So if you're thinking about joining me at the beautiful Bon Secours Retreat & Conference ...

Adding leaven to our prayer

July 23, 2023 • Give Us This Day

My Give Us This Day reflection on today’s Scripture readings. You can find the readings HERE. A friend and I were discussing the problem of letting our ...

Paddling past our fears

July 13, 2023 • Life Lines

When was the last time you let fear keep you from doing something you really wanted or needed to do? Maybe it was a lifetime ago, something in the distant ...

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