Our Lady of Victory
Holly Schapker
May 1, 2024
Our sovereign queen knows our situation in the midst of the mess. She sees our untouchable beauty and holiness when we cannot.
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Finding Delight amid the Gloom
Elizabeth Bookser Barkley, PhD
May 1, 2024
This morning I read the opening lines of a poem by Jack Gilbert: “Sorrow everywhere. Slaughter everywhere.” But the poem, “A Brief for the Defense,” gracefully moves on: “. . . we enjoy our lives because that’s what God wants. . . . We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure,/but not delight.”
Embrace the Quiet
Susan Hines-Brigger
April 30, 2024
We are surrounded by so much noise on a daily basis. Some of it is unavoidable, some of it is self-imposed. It’s almost as if we’re afraid of the quiet.
Three Steps Forward, Two Steps Backward
Richard Rohr, OFM
April 30, 2024
The genius of the biblical revelation is that it doesn’t just give us the conclusions; it gives us both the process of getting there and the inner and outer authority to trust that process.
Listening and Asking Questions
Herman Sutter
April 29, 2024
The next time you are talking with someone, ask a question. Something like: How did that make you feel? What did you think about that? Why?
Pause. Then Pray.
Christopher Heffron
April 29, 2024
St. Francis of Assisi understood the spiritual and psychological toll that life could bring.
Justice and Solidarity
Vanesa Zuleta Goldberg
April 28, 2024
Dorothy Day was a social activist, pacifist, Catholic worker, and peacemaker. She lived at a time that reflected social injustice against others, and she actively refused to fade into all the noise.
Awe and Wonder of Creation
Pope Francis
April 28, 2024
St. Francis’ response to the world around him was so much more than intellectual appreciation or economic calculus, for to him each and every creature was a sister united to him by bonds of affection.
Here I Am, Lord
Theresa Doyle-Nelson
April 27, 2024
“He [Ananias] answered, ‘Here I am, Lord’” (Acts 9:10). The words “Here I am, Lord” are spoken by a variety of people in the Bible, including St. Ananias.
Called to the Cross
Herman Sutter
April 27, 2024
If we claim to revere the cross, if we claim to love the one who died for our sins, then we must not turn away.
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