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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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Blessing of Aaron: a message for our hungry hearts

January 1, 2025 • Give Us This Day

Published in the January 2025 issue of Give Us This Day: The Lord bless you and keep you! The Lord let his face shine upon you, and be gracious to ...

New podcast: Out with the Old, in with the Unknown

December 31, 2024 • podcasts, Uncategorized

As we cross the threshold of a new year, can we embrace what's ahead — with all its messiness and challenge — and offer ourselves and our world compassion ...

A World of Endless Thresholds

December 28, 2024 • Life Lines

We stand on the cusp of a new year, another threshold, which, oddly enough, tends to get us thinking not about where we are standing at that moment but about ...

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Heart Health: Trust Your Gut (podcast)

February 18, 2024 • podcasts

In honor of Heart Health Month, I'm sharing my own heart health scare as a cautionary tale. I am so grateful I am here to tell my story. Trust your intuition ...

Listening with the ear of our heart this Lent

February 16, 2024 • Life Lines

Each year, as Lent begins, I can’t help but remember a scene from Sunday Mass a few years back. A little boy sitting in the second pew with his grandmother ...

What is prayer? It’s like talking—and listening—to a best friend.

January 16, 2024 • Life Lines

When it comes to our prayer lives, we too often fall into the trap of setting goals, mapping “progress,” and jumping through spiritual hoops, as if our ...

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 ...

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