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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 early? Okay, a lot early. My new book of seasonal Scripture reflections is now available for ...

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A farewell to my ‘home’ newspaper

November 3, 2022 • Life Lines

A few months back, my husband, Dennis, called me from work and said, “I have to tell you something that is going to make you cry.” He followed it immediately ...

Beauty Even in the Fading

October 6, 2022 • Life Lines

It's funny how we have certain expectations of life, from the biggest events to the smallest details, and we are quick to label the results: good, bad, ...

Close encounters of the saintly kind

October 1, 2022 • saints

On this Feast of St. Thèrése of Lisieux, I thought I'd share my close encounter with this beloved saint. I was never a big fan of St. Thèrése. I didn't have ...

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Don’t wait. Say yes.

December 8, 2019 • Life Lines

I first got to know Sister Johanne McCarthy, C.S.J., about 18 months ago when she wrote to complain that our Albany diocesan newspaper wasn’t giving ...

The Things We Save

November 15, 2019 • Life Lines

I returned home from work one day recently to see a For Sale sign on the lawn of our elderly neighbors, a retired Army doctor and nurse. They’ve been living ...

Angels and Saints

October 15, 2019 • saints

The feasts and celebrations that surround us at this time in the liturgical year can do a soul some much-needed good. It’s hard to feel like a solitary ...

The way to ease is not easy

October 1, 2019 • Life in My 50s, Life Lines

September always feels like the start of a new year to me, much more so than Jan. 1 ever does. It must be the perennial student in me. I can’t even resist ...

For and Against

September 30, 2019 • Uncategorized

In the span of one week, at my job as a Church communications director, I had two people separately accuse me of completely opposite — and equally untrue — ...

Fierce and Fearless at 57

September 27, 2019 • Life in My 50s, Silence

"I’ve done my best work, really, my most important work, from the ages of maybe 57 to now." That quote is from the poetic writer and musician Patti Smith, ...

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