Shabbat shalom!
When I was in the fifth or sixth grade my parents started allowing me to go places unsupervised with friends. We used to go...
A sap falling from a maple
Unbelievably, we are already in the first week of May. May conjures up many memories; the supposed warm up from a nasty April, my...
Good Friday
A few weeks ago, I was blessed to be the director of the diocesan YES! retreat weekend. YES! is a weekend retreat for high school-age...
Called to walk in newness of life
We were celebrating the Easter Vigil Mass at the nursing home. Sister Claire nudged me to get the hand bells ready. As I rang...
Easter 1978; It has a nice ring to it
I recall an Easter Sunday 45 years ago this year. While myriad folks were receiving Easter Bunnies encased in gold foil wrappers, Denise’s gold was...
Pope Francis reminds we are all part of the same family
March 2023 marks the tenth anniversary of Pope Francis’ pontificate. It is too soon to estimate the historical impact of Pope Francis on the...
What’s a good prayer for X? Y? Z?
Father Michael Ahearne of St. Monica Parish in Palm Fields, Ala., was preparing to take a group of parish teens on a cookout to...
Baptism and the cross
Folded within the heart of Lent each year are flickers of joy, harbingers of light that reflect not only past events but future victories...
It’s OK to make a nun cry
When the British Invasion (the second one, not the Tea Party one) hit the U.S. with an explosion of new music, I was just...
Lenten self-help or Lenten denial of self?
One day, my family and I were playing with magnatiles and blocks. I told my kids that I was going to build a massive...
