As we settle back into Ordinary Time in our liturgical calendar, it strikes me as a more challenging task this time around. It’s not hard to see that there nothing ordinary about “Ordinary Time” at this point in 2026. While the Scripture readings and the ...
Published on May 17, 2025, in Give Us This Day:
“Seeing is believing,” the old saying goes. Yet in today’s first reading and in the Gospel, those who have ...
When the white smoke appeared in St. Peter’s Square, the frenzy of the crowd could be felt from across the ocean and through our TV screen. Even without ...
Every Easter brings me back to my teenage years, when I was a leader of my parish’s high school youth group. For several years running, we planned outdoor ...
When I was in Guatemala on retreat earlier this month, I was humbled and heartened by the visible presence of Lent not just in churches but on storefronts ...
My reflection on today's Scripture readings in the March issue of Give Us This Day:
At some point or another, most of us have been blamed for something we ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
