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Talking about Lent with the folks at the Deacons Pod

February 24, 2026 • podcasts

From the Deacons Pod: A brand new episode of our podcast "Deacons Pod" dropped today! Our special guest is Mary DeTurris Poust - Writer, a former Director of Communications for the Diocese of Albany, NY, who has worked as a reporter, editor, and ...

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Miscarriage: love and loss 27 years later

August 6, 2025 • grief

My annual tribute to the baby I lost 27 years ago today, the baby I call Grace: For the past few days I’ve been looking at the numbers on the calendar, ...

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 ...

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Don’t shut down wonder

September 12, 2024 • Life Lines

When I initially developed the Stillpoint Retreat, which I have led at Pyramid Life Center for six years and counting, my hope was to give people a space ...

9/11: Remembering like it was yesterday

September 11, 2024 • Life Lines

Here’s the Life Lines column I wrote 23 years ago, in the days following 9/11. So much has changed since that time. Our world has changed. My family has ...

Mystical moments in the cheese aisle

August 22, 2024 • Life Lines

On a recent rainy morning, I ventured up to Trader Joe’s on Wolf Road in Albany, armed with a vacation snack wish list from my daughter, Olivia, who would be ...

Miscarriage: love and loss 26 years later

August 6, 2024 • grief

My annual tribute to the baby I lost 26 years ago today, the baby I call Grace: For the past few days I’ve been looking at the numbers on the calendar, ...

Less worry, more courage

July 29, 2024 • Give Us This Day

My reflection from today's Gospel (John 11:19-27) in Give Us This Day: As much as we’d like to think of ourselves as Martha in today’s Scripture ...

Ten million dollars or five minutes with Jesus

July 25, 2024 • Life Lines

Every now and then, something happens to remind us of our absolute faith in God. It might not even be something monumental. In fact, most times it is ...

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