During the Lenten Season, one of the Scripture Readings is from the Gospel of Luke. It begins with the sentence “Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.” (Luke 6:36 NIV) In reflecting on that passage, I was first drawn to reflect upon my experience of “mercy” in...
On January 1st, I followed a tradition I learned from my spiritual director that has helped to set the tone for my year so far. Unlike resolutions that, statistics show, are mostly broken in a few weeks and largely forgotten by year’s end, this practice has staying...
The Catholic Church in the United States has celebrated National Migration Week in January for almost 50 years. According to the website Justice for Immigrants, it is “an opportunity for the Church to reflect on the circumstances confronting . . . immigrants,...
The Holiday frenzy has begun. There are presents to buy, plans to be made, gifts to wrap, trips to plan, cleaning to be done, decorating to do and the list goes on. But amid all this, there is a deeper thing going on. Christmas, oh yes, Christ. How does this...
“Blessed are we whose hearts are filled with love, who sing praises to You with grateful hearts!” Ps. 84 There is a boutique in town called ‘Never Enough’. Really? Never enough! How can that be? We are showered dally with blessings from our God. But we just...
Home. Maya Angelou wrote that the ache for home lives in all of us. Do you have an ache for a place where you can be your best, truest, most honest self, where you can feel peace, where you can just be, where there is more light than darkness? We long for peace, for...
