Imagine yourself standing at a high mountain overlook. You’ve broken through the treeline and are walking along a trail, cut perfectly through a green mountain meadow. You breathe in the fragrance of the crisp air as you wind your way…
This blog was most easily written as a letter to my children and grandchildren–please know all its readers are my extended family in Our Lord! “God comes to us in the things we know best and can verify most easily,…
“My dove, hiding in the clefts of the rock …” (Song of Songs 2:14) I used to be like that dove, hiding in the clefts of my own isolation. It felt too scary to go out into the world—a world…
Sometimes the new year does not get off to the greatest start. This January has been a month of disappointments to be honest. One right after the next. Little ones. Nothing earth shattering. New York plans canceled four times. No…
Each year, as winter deepens and daylight fades, Christmas lights begin to appear. They line rooftops and windows, tracing the dark with warmth and promise. These small flames against the night stir something within me—a longing for light that does…
When I was young, if you asked me what I wanted to be when I grow up, I would tell you “an artist” which was a bit ironic because I had trouble coloring within the lines and I couldn’t draw…
During Advent we are invited to prepare our hearts anew for Jesus, right? What does that mean and how do we do it? How do I make my heart a more inviting abode for our Lord? We reflected on this…
“Let the Lord enter; he is the king of glory” (Ps 24) “Let the Lord enter…”–such a plea from the psalmist’s heart to our hearts in this weekday Mass Responsorial, read as Advent unfolds into Christmas. Our parish has been engaged…
How finite persons can give an infinite gift of self… “Where is life more conscious of its potency than in the pleasure of giving itself away? Must we not say that life is never more alive than when it gives…
Inspired by the words of Revelation 3:15-16, St. Catherine of Siena wrote to one of her disciples, “See that you are not lukewarm but on fire … If you are what you ought to be, you will light a fire…
My garden, once a sanctuary, was trampled upon by those closest to me – my own family. Years of betrayal and anguish left me feeling forsaken and utterly all alone. I tried to navigate life all by myself, but I…
Who will it be today? When we go to prayer, whom do we seek? What is it we need? How about some empathy to meet us right where we are? My spiritual mother recently invited me to try praying a…
