This Black History Month, I was motivated to pursue the origin story of The Annual Walk Through Black History Month production at the First Baptist Church in Dubuque, Iowa. For 13 years, Mrs. Peggy Jackson has organized the event which…
The Feast of the Presentation of Our Lord is celebrated 40 days after Christmas. This feast celebrates Simeon's revelation of Jesus as the Messiah, God's Anointed One, and Anna's grateful heart giving thanks to God and speaking about the child…
On Monday, Jan. 21, MLK Day, we honor the life of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and all the Civil Rights activists who fought for equality and justice. On this day, we remember activists like Rosa Parks who refused…
Realize, recognize, respond: these three words take on a deeper meaning for me and the many other members of the Tri-State Coalition Against Human Trafficking and Slavery during January—National Human Trafficking Awareness Month. The Tri-State Coalition is a collaborative, faith-based…
Each year on January 1 we celebrate the feast of Mary Mother of God, the solemnity of Mary as Theotokos, God-bearer. We honor the woman who physically nurtured the Godhead within her womb for nine months and gave birth to…
Humility is a word that I keep coming back to as I reflect on my past week visiting Guayaquil and Quito, Ecuador. The purpose of my trip, with Resurrection parishioners Tim and Mary Moothart, was to be able to gain…
December is a time to celebrate the Mother of God under the title of the Immaculate Conception, but it is also the time to recall the coming of our Blessed Mother to the new world under the title of Our…
On Dec. 8, the church celebrates the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception. This feast was celebrated in some monasteries before the beginning of the eighth century and became widespread in the eighteenth century. The bishops commended the United States to…
Last weekend was my first BVM Network on Women’s Issues meeting and it was such a blessing. At the Felician Motherhouse in Chicago we explored the universe story first by sharing a bit about “What difference has my emerging understanding…
When I was in grade school I spent many hours reading biographies on the lives of the saints. What exciting lives they lived!