Tag Archive: #reflection

The Perfect Storm

I am writing this on a Saturday morning. Saturdays are my writing days, when my husband takes over the kids and the house and I disappear into the office with an enormous cup of coffee and noise-canceling headphones. Saturdays are [read more...]

Catholic 101: Praying the Our Father

The following excerpt is from “Catholic 101: Praying the Our Father,” by Michael Rossmann, SJ, found on The Jesuit Post website… Sometimes I catch myself doing the “Autopilot” Our Father: my lips are moving; sound is coming out; I might [read more...]

“I Go to Mass, but it Feels Like Nothing Changes”

The sacraments that Christ gave his church are powerful. They are life changing. But… they are not magic. Jesus Christ’s life, death, and resurrection makes salvation possible for all of us. But there is one key ingredient that only you [read more...]

Do You Go to Hell if You Never Heard of Jesus?

When considering the people of the Old Testament before Jesus’s coming, we might ask ourselves: “Are those without the knowledge of Jesus destined for eternal damnation?” And what about those who have never had an opportunity in our day and [read more...]

A Theology of Your Body

Pope John Paul II said that what modern man needs—and is missing—is an “adequate anthropology”, or, a full understanding of what it looks like to be human. Over the course of his pontificate, he gave it his best shot using [read more...]

Precious Things

I once wrote an article about a school that embraced the Reggio Emilia approach to education. This meant, in practice, a lot of fascinating things, and it was a fun piece to work on. But all these years later, I [read more...]

Spirit to Spirit

Talk to any couple who are devoted to one another. Ask them when they realized they were in love — call-me-in-a-crisis love, face-the-day-to-day-with-me love — and the answer will probably not be “When I realized he was only dating me [read more...]

The Truth We Cannot See

I only pray out loud when I want my kids to hear what I’m saying. I know what you’re thinking — hypocrites in the synagogue and the street corner; go to your room and shut the door — but I [read more...]

Motherhood: Inspiration

It was witnessing the nurse midwife care of malaria fever stricken impoverished mothers and babies in Uganda that prompted my “second calling” as a deacon. What was the holy fire that stirred in me so long ago that has prompted [read more...]

A Message to Cradle Catholics

A question to anyone who is thinking about rejecting Jesus (or has accepted him for that matter): have you even met him? Do you know who you are rejecting? You might think the answer is yes. The answer might even [read more...]