This autumn has been a season of deep gratitude and growing awe. Whether it has to do with my age or my circumstances or a combination of both, I increasingly find myself in ever-widening circles of spiritual seekers — most of them women — who are not ...
This morning I posted the link below partly to make a point and partly because it was funny. A comment left on my post in all caps, telling me never to wear ...
I was driving to Rochester last week to give a talk to the local chapter of Magnificat, and I decided to make the trip into a mini-retreat of sorts. I ...
My reflection from Give Us This Day today:
Truth and trust. I’m guessing that for most of us these two words stir up powerful emotions, whether close to the ...
I'd like to backtrack for a minute and make sure you all had a chance to read what I think is a critical and spot-on portion of Pope Francis' homily -- ...
Earlier this week, we sat around our kitchen table as a family and broke the unleavened bread made by Chiara’s faith formation teacher as a Holy Week ...
This morning I came across a post over at Momastery that really stopped me cold. I mean, I do my little charitable stuff here and there, but I have never ...
We interrupt our wall-to-wall Pope Francis coverage for my annual post in honor of National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, which is celebrated in March. ...
Do you want to know how bad it's getting? Yesterday, while in the shower, I found myself singing -- out of the clear blue sky -- "Come on, people now, smile ...