By divine design, the Feast of Pentecost occurred on May 31, the point of transition to a new month and a gradual return to a sense of normal on the tails of the coronavirus global pandemic. After three months of the New York pause, we have been not unlike Mary and the apostles gathered in […]
While to a certain degree returning to “business as usual” will not likely happen, that does not mean the vast majority of those who hold most of the world’s wealth and power will not use every advantage at their disposal in trying to hold onto broken, corrupt, unjust systems – what St. John Paul II […]
All of us have had the most unusual Lent and Easter that perhaps we will ever experience. The COVID-19 pandemic forced many of us to work remotely, stock up on essentials and even close our churches for the most important holy days of the year. While our pastors scrambled to figure out how to observe […]
Every crisis not only tests the faith and resolve of those who experience it, but it also creates opportunities for both compassion and reflection. This pandemic is no different. In the midst of so many concerns about business, the economy, eating out, and “normal” life, we are called to acknowledge that, as in so many […]
The present Covid-19 global pandemic reveals to all of us our vulnerability and the mitigation efforts call us to an awareness of community around us and all over the world. At this time we naturally turn to prayer and ask for help and healing from our God. Our situation calls to mind the healing ministry […]
As a girl, I was always mesmerized as I watched the altar servers begin Mass. My dad would hoist me up on his shoulder as I watched them travel by. I knew that I would become an altar server too. So the day when the sign up sheet landed on my desk during religion class, […]
A few years ago, an article was published in Time magazine by Christopher Hale, who at the time was the executive director at Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good and the cofounder of Millennial. The title of the article was “Jesus’ Radical Easter Politics.” The full article is still available online at time.com/4271474/jesus-radical-easterpolitics/. Certainly, […]
There is a beautiful passage in Scripture about the self-emptying love of God, most clearly seen in Jesus Christ. In Philippians 2:7, we read, “He emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness.” This month, as we contemplate the mysteries of salvation, it is most appropriate for us to consider […]
In 2002, I gave a presentation on Mary in the Gospels. During the discussion, one person remarked that she had heard that the blood and water coming from the side of Jesus on the cross in John 19:34 was a birthing image – the amniotic fluid and blood involved in human birthing. Since I was […]
El pasado enero como parte de la celebración del Día Nacional de Oración por los Afroamericanos y la familia Africanas. Por la familia Afroamericana y Africana? El p. Jim Goode, fundador de OFM de este día en 1989, compartió con nosotros una refl exión de Therese Wilson. Me gustaría compartir la refl exión con todos […]
