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Showing Up Messy

Gretchen Crowder
One afternoon right before the end of the fall semester, a smiling child came rushing down the school hallway shouting, “Mom, I just have...
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Hold Tightly When the River Rushes

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Eric Clayton, deputy director of communications for the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States, was standing in a rushing river in Bolivia...
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Sharing the Wisdom: What I Learned from a Friend About the Gift of Presence

Rebecca Ruiz
I can’t remember exactly when we met her. We had arrived in the snowy tundra in January of my fifth-grade year. I know it...
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Sharing the Wisdom: What I Learned from My Grandfather About Courage and Nature

Marina Berzins McCoy
When I was a child, my brother and I spent long summers with my grandparents on their retirement farm outside of Cornwall, Ontario. My...
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Sharing the Wisdom: What I Learned from My Grandfather About Art and Dreams

Gretchen Crowder
“Boys, stop throwing that ball in this room! I have one room of nice things. One. Go play somewhere else!” I screamed as I...
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Merry Christmas!

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“How blessed are we all, that one child was born, How blessed are we all on this great Christmas morn!” —The Shepherd’s Story by Jimmy Dunne Enjoy “The Shepherd’s...
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Joseph’s Fiat

Rebecca Ruiz
Every year, at Christmas Eve Mass, a soloist in our parish sings “Joseph’s Song” by Michael Card. The simple melody conveys a sense of...
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Anna and the Call to Recognize What Is Possible

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Anna (Luke 2:22–24, 36–38) is part of the Christmas story. It’s easy to overlook her among the many characters in Luke’s infancy narrative because...
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Praying the O Antiphons

Shemaiah Gonzalez
“O Emmanuel. O God with us.” This is the “O Antiphon,” one of seven, with which we are most familiar, sung in that marvelous...
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Finding God in What Is Tender and Small This Season

Marina Berzins McCoy
In Advent, we await the second coming of Christ, and we also welcome the ways that God breaks into our lives again and again....
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