In a chaotic time surrounding an election, health fears, and technology overload, I pause and reflect about a simple group of believers and family who experienced the same. A messenger of justice, freedom, and charity, Jesus chose to die knowing…
Say to daughter Zion, See, your king comes to you, Gentle and riding on a donkey, On a colt, the foal of a donkey. He will proclaim peace to the nations. His rule will extend from sea to sea.” -Zechariah…
“Ain’t I a woman!” was a statement attributed to Sojourner Truth in her address to the Women’s Rights Conference in Akron, Ohio, in 1851. Sojourner was an African American woman who was born into slavery but escaped and “walked away…
As the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord draws close, I again find myself called to deeper conversion by Luke’s Gospel reading. Over the last few years, as my faith has grown, I have become increasingly drawn in by…
Graphic: Blue Campaign, U.S. Department of Homeland Security These days of National Migration Week have urged us anew to welcome and advocate for our sisters and brothers who are compelled to flee poverty, conflict, and national disaster to find a…
Although the history of Advent has many branches resulting in various meanings for the word, many of us have from childhood on associated both the word and the season with traditional words like: come, prepare, watch, wait, hope, expectation, anticipation…
Photo: Social Ninja, https://socialninja.net/ If I were less artistically and technologically challenged, I would create a computer program that brings Isaiah 35:1-6 to life. The desert will stream with water and be glad, the dry lands will bloom, the wasteland…
We can learn much from the story of the Virgin of Guadalupe’s tender apparitions to humble, poor Juan Diego. But we can be enriched by the faith of Hispanics, especially Mexicans, throughout the world. For me, a visit to the…
Painting by Roberta White, BVM On Dec. 8, 1868, co-founder of the BVM congregation, the Rev. Terence J. Donaghoe, had the happiness of celebrating Mass the first time the feast of the Immaculate Conception was a holy day of obligation…
Advent is a time of hope . . . hope in the future, hope in the promises God has made to us. Advent reminds us that hope is not for easy times; hope comes when our “hands are feeble” and…