The “Call”: We All Receive Them, But When Will You Answer? Nine years ago, I got a text from a friend I hadn’t seen in a few years: “I don’t know where to turn or what to do. I’m sick and getting evicted from my apartment as of the 31st. […]
How Good That You Exist!
Everyone needs at least one person in their lives who can honestly say to them, “How good that you exist!”
Navigating through darkness to the Season of Light
Writer Mary McWilliams recommends diving into the readings of Advent to combat the high anxiety that often accompanies the worldly preoccupations of the holidays.
Knowing the Drill
Knowing the Drill by Lisa Livezey The burden bearers carried their loads in such a way that each labored on the work with one hand and with the other held a weapon. – Nehemiah 4:17 (NRSV) They worked with one hand and held a weapon with the other. Working and […]
Watch!
Author Margaret King Zacharias offers a ‘watchful’ linguistic commentary on the First Saturday Gospel reading.
Mom Hated to Clean!
Mom Hated to Clean! My mom was a typical mom in all but one thing. She hated to clean! Mom was a good Catholic girl who went to work in a restaurant at 16 and didn’t finish high school until she got her GED at the age of 32, followed […]
Little Sundays
Kimberly Novak ponders how engaging in Little Sunday moments can ignite our hearts while effortlessly easing us into honoring the seventh day of rest.
The Five Cs of a Good Confession
Maria Riley shares the 5 Cs that will help you have a full, efficient, and blessed Sacrament of Reconciliation.
Love Is Life that Pours Itself Forth
We are most fully alive when we are “breaking ourselves open and pouring ourselves out” in loving self-gift to God and neighbor.
With God, You Can Handle Anything
Kimberly Novak shares inspirations of imaginative prayer that allow God to have control.