Lenten...Shabbat?In my strange little world these words go together just fine, possibly because my Jewish mother was as likely to serve fish as she...

Lent and My Big Birthday

Reflections Meredith Gould

I'm having one of those so-called milestone birthdays in a few weeks. On Ash Wednesday. If my birthday wasn't coinciding with the beginning of...

Up the Ladder

Reflections Jim Manney

Writing in the Huffington Post, Fr. Jim Martin's literal climb up a scaffolding in an old church becomes a powerful metaphor for the climb...

What Forgiveness Means

Books Maureen McCann Waldron

I have a friend whose family members hang onto grudges and slights. They are people who remember everything ever done to them, against them—and...

The Worst Day of the Year

Reflections Maureen McCann Waldron

We made it. We got through January 24th, the worst day of the year. A group in Great Britain came up with this date a...

Spiritual Practices: Napping

Discernment Meredith Gould

I'm all for finding God in the silence. For me this means taking lots of naps, especially during the winter with its protracted darkness...

The Holy Family

Reflections Tim Muldoon

This past Sunday was the feast of the Holy Family, and it calls to our imagination that "longest sermon" of Jesus first 30 years,...

Annunciations All the Time

Poetry Jim Manney

My wife disturbed my Advent bliss a couple of days ago when she showed me a poem. I had been sailing along smoothly, humming...

The Pronoun “God”

Discernment Tim Muldoon

The word "God" is a pronoun whose antecedent we do not know. When we are struck by beauty, when it lays claim to our attention...

Advent Is My Favorite Season

Reflections Meredith Gould

Forget childlike excitement on the night before Christmas, this adult is way more enthusiastic about celebrating four weeks of Advent. Advent is my favorite season,...

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