Remember saying “Are we there yet?” Can it teach us anything about today?
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Parents – Comforters? Nudges? Both?
Parents are both comforters and nudges!
Should it be any different with God’s Spirit?
Ever Know Something Was Coming But Were Unprepared?
We may know that a parent is dying. But are we ever really prepared?
The situation is more complicated if we did not see it coming – an accident, pandemic, violence.
Let’s explore how prepared the followers of Christ were to face his leaving them and ascending to he…
St. Vincent, Pope Francis, and Synodality?
One of my favorite images of the synodal process is “a journey of dialogue in which we learn how to recognize the presence of Christ walking besides us.”
Mothers and Mary – Model For Us As Church
We believe we are the body of Christ. Mary models for us how to be present in both the joyful and painful experiences Christ experiences in us as his Body TODAY.
How My Idea of Lent Has Changed
How has your idea of Lent changed? Instead of giving something up I now see as a time to wake up and grow up to an image of God’s love in the world today.
Mothers – Lessons Mary Learned and Teaches
How did Mary learn to be Mother of the Church”? What can we learn from her as Mother of the Church?
Lourdes and the Common Extremism of the Saints
Jesus rightly earned the title of extremist. Washing the feet of his followers could certainly be called an extreme. Giving his life to demonstrate what it means to love everyone… even those who had murderous hatred for him.
Valentine’s Day, Baptism, and Eucharist?
A woman wrote of the beginning years of her marriage: “I have become aware of what it means to be loved and it is that awareness of being loved that I am trying to share with others.” What a beautiful way of getting at yet another dimension of loving.
Please Don’t Feed the Trolls
Pope Francis and even Jesus got trolled. What can we learn from them about handling trolls?
A Transforming Surprise – Encounter With Jesus
Jesus’ disciples experienced a transforming surprise.
God does not come to us in the way we want God to come. God comes to us in the ordinariness of our daily lives… if we open our eyes to see and hear, especially the cries of the poor… we will see God.
Master Class – Encounter Between Old and Young
I never appreciated the fourth mystery of the rosary as an encounter between the old and the young. But it is a theme that runs through many of Pope Francis’ homilies on February 2.
Challenges of Change
A thread stitches almost all these posts together. Change! They all focused on something that called for a change. We are all on a journey of change together.