Affirming Others
May 31, 2023
Confronting Stereotypes
When I was first diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, I remember immediately jumping to the worst-case scenarios. Suddenly, I pictured images of people who were wheelchair-bound and unable to carry out many of the daily tasks that I had become so …
Journey Toward Rebirth
Reflect During the weeks of Lent, we embrace the sorrowful mystery of Christ’s death, knowing we are always journeying toward rebirth. Pray Dear Jesus, Throughout these desolate forty days, our faith in yougrows buds of hopethat we know will soon unfoldbecause you’ve …
Mapping the Everyday Sacred
I rely on certain passages from the psalms as my daily guide; most essentially, the words from Psalm 119:105: “Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light for my path.” At the end of 2021, as I was …
Sharing the Word for March 9, 2023
Thursday of the Second Week of Lent March 9, 2023Daily Reading from the USCCB: Jeremiah 17:5-10 Today God asks us what’s important in our life. Jeremiah tells us not to put our confidence in human beings. If we put our …
Lent with St. Clare: Second Thursday
Each of us has been created for a different purpose. Clare’s path was different from each of ours, yet in many ways it is the same. We’re all blessed to have been created. What will we do with that blessing?
Polish experts reject claim JPII ‘covered up abuse,’ urge all church records be opened to give full context
KRAKOW, Poland (OSV News) — The fact that Cardinal Karol Wojtyla — the future Pope John Paul II — knew about abuse when he was an archbishop of Krakow, Poland, is neither new nor surprising, experts say. What remains to …