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December 31, 2023: Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph
...the peoples.” This promised salvation is for all the human family. Anna’s lifetime of being present to God in daily worship and continual prayer and fasting was a life of hope and fidelity. She saw the fulfillment of God’s promises in Jesus, seeing her God face to face in the vulnerability and dependence of this infant. Anna praised and thanked God and then went out nd spoke to all the people she encountered about the fidelity of God to God’s...
January 21, 2024: Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
...things. Only with such reverence do we find confidence and coherence. Only then does the world become a safe home. Then we can see the reflection of the divine image in the human, in the animal, in the entire natural world—which has now become inherently ‘supernatural.’” Action During the next week find something to celebrate each day. Accept Father Rohr’s invitation to “see the reflection of the divine image in the human, in the animal, in the entire natural world.”...
‘Everything is Connected’ — Our Climate
Note: We want to share these blogs which we have adapted from “Our Common Home,” a joint initiative of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development along with the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI). This is the first in a series of eight blogs. “Everything is connected,” – Pope Francis, Laudato Si’ (91) We know the drill: Ecological Crisis! Urgency! Action NOW! We call out: Show us the way! Our common home/SEI: a joint initiative of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral...
July 7, 2024: Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
...and ones I have always found fruitful for reflection. If we see beyond a hurried reading, we recognize that this Gospel gives us insight into Jesus, into the Jewish people of Jesus’ time, as well as into the human condition. There are several words and phrases that help us see into their hearts and minds — amazed, astonished, taking offense. These listeners move from being amazed and marveling at Jesus’ wisdom and deeds to taking offense at his lineage and...
September 1, 2024: Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
...traditionally observed, the purification of cups and jugs and kettles and beds. — So the Pharisees and scribes questioned him, “Why do your disciples not follow the tradition of the elders but instead eat a meal with unclean hands?” He responded, “Well did Isaiah prophesy about you hypocrites, as it is written: This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me; in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines human precepts. You disregard God’s...
Body+Blood+Soul+Divinity
A National Eucharistic Congress Experience “The Eucharist is God’s response to the deepest hunger of the human heart, the hunger for authentic life, for in the Eucharist Christ himself is truly in our midst, to nourish, console and sustain us on our journey.” – Pope Francis Fifty-thousand people kneel on a stadium floor, music floats over the crowd, a melody of the Latin Tantum Ergo (Therefore So Great). The masses sing and pray, hands lifted to God. Jesus enters the...
Celebrating International Literacy Day
Twenty-two years after the founding of the United Nations in 1945, that organization affirmed the establishment of International Literacy Day, setting its annual observance on September 8 and placing it within the framework of UNESCO (United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization), a UN specialized agency. The purpose of International Literacy Day is to raise awareness about the importance of literacy and numeracy skills worldwide and to promote such skills as global human right. From the start, the literacy movement...
A reflection for the Season of Creation
...Lent? Can’t you almost hear Earth saying those lines from Isaiah? “I gave my back to those who beat me, my cheeks to those who plucked my beard; my face I did not shield from buffets and spitting.” Yes, God gave us the gift of living on this planet we call Earth. And Earth has graciously given us its resources to use. Yet over time we humans have looked upon it as “ours” to subdue and to use to our...
November 17, 2024: Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time
...this world. We will not know when or how our lives will end. The somber warning is meant to alert us to the fact that no one and no thing last forever. It shakes us up to face the reality that our life is finite and that the clock is ticking. Every news report typically contains some story about the end, either of human lives or human inventions. This world as we know it is passing away. The only thing...
Sister Emily TeKolste: Continuing to grow spiritually
...Advocacy for All Following her profession of first vows, Sister Emily started ministering as a Grassroots Mobilization Coordinator for NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice, where she remains to this day. “My ministry is to work with citizen advocates, everyday people across six states who want to fulfill the call of Catholic Social Teaching to participate in creating the world we want to live in,” Sister Emily said, “a world that values human dignity and puts policies in place to...
December 1, 2024: First Sunday of Advent
Gospel: Luke 21:25-36 “There will be signs in the sun, the moon and the stars and on the earth distress. … People will faint from fear and foreboding of what is coming upon the world, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken. Then they will see the Son of (Humanity) coming in a cloud with power and great glory. Now when these things begin to take place, stand up and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing...
September 14, 2025: The Exaltation of the Holy Cross
...a vision I can get behind (and to which I have committed my life). Believing in Jesus, for me, means seeing the truth in his message. I am a child of a loving God and so is every other being, human and more-than-human. I have a divine spark within me. I have the capacity to hurt others, yes, and I can be generous and loving. This is a belief centered in my heart, a connection I fell and experience. Believing...