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…
As autumn arrives and the colored leaves float to the green grass below, one can enjoy the fall colors and Halloween trick-or-treaters. Usually. This year was an exception. Instead of the brisk breezes of autumn, we’ve felt wicked wintry winds…
[Jesus said] "What I say to you, I say to all: ‘Watch!’” Mark 13:37 “Watch.” This warning has been sounded in our ears many times over the course of our lives. Sometimes it heralded something wondrous: “Watch what happens when…
Tina Bauer (l.) LaDonna Manternach, BVM, Tracy Bauer, Robert Monfort, Lori Ritz, and Debi Marek shared adventures and inspirations on a cultural immersion trip to Ecuador. A shared cultural immersion trip to Ecuador brought individual reflections. Read observations and…