By Marge Fenelon I’ve just returned from a speaking engagement in Ireland – a great blessing and honor on every front. I had the further blessing of being accompanied by my husband [...]
By Lori Ubowski I’ve always been the planner, organizer, coordinator, and host of so many things that make it seem like I always have it all together. I have fond and proud [...]
By Susan Klemond Have you ever felt you were in the wrong place at the wrong time? While taking a walk my neighborhood one evening this summer, I waited at the edge of a street for [...]
By Sharon Wilson For about eight years, I worked as the Respect Life Coordinator for my Archdiocese. My employment came during difficult times for the Archdiocese and caused me to struggle with [...]
By Elizabeth Tomlin Do you ever feel like you’re stuck in too much hard stuff . . . like there is so much going on in your life, that you can’t possibly do anything else? In the [...]
By Sarah Christmyer You can’t blame them, really. The men who raced toward the Temple were only following instructions. Just moments before, they were lepers: living on the fringes of [...]
By Anni Harry Have you ever heard the advice: don’t pray for patience because then the Lord will give you opportunities to build your patience? Today’s Gospel reading starts off in the [...]
By Alyssa Bormes I suppose it was Mother Angelica who asked me the question first, and Father Paul Murray was the latest to ask me; in between there have been a number of others as [...]
By Lindsay Schlegel Have you ever had God answer a prayer with a “yes” and then struggle to accept his generosity? For the last six years, my husband and I have lived in his [...]
By Carol Younger Two words jumped out at me in these readings, at the beginning of the Gospel: tax collectors and sinners! And yet, these were “all drawing near to listen to Jesus….” Are [...]
