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Friday, August 08, 2025

Yes, I've Changed Parishes

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On the morning of the feast of St. Martha (and Mary, and Lazarus), a friend who regularly prays Morning Prayer with our group asked me about...
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Sunday, January 12, 2025

Confessions of a Closet Gnostic

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As soon as I type "closet gnostic" I am anticipating one of my more intellectual readers taking me to task for theological impreci...
Monday, July 29, 2024

Hiking, Love, and Transformation

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Eight years ago, I hiked in the Tatra mountains. Come to think of it, it was exactly this time of year I was there. The scenery was beautifu...
Saturday, February 17, 2024

Joy Comes in the Morning

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This morning as I enter into prayer, I find a strange gratitude welling up inside of me. Gratitude in general is unusual enough for me. But ...
Saturday, January 06, 2024

A New (Leg of the) Journey

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 New years and new things may suggest each other, but I'm not one to choose some big newness project on January 1. Gosh, even writing th...
Saturday, December 09, 2023

Let Advent In

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Tomorrow I'm singing in a community choir Christmas concert, and today was our dress rehearsal. Somewhere along the line this morning I ...
Wednesday, August 23, 2023

A Woman in a Woman's World

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Yesterday I had, well, let's call it an interesting experience. You know how you can be going through life, facing forward, living in th...
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Sunday, May 07, 2023

Following up on Things Previously Said

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Clearly I don't blog much anymore, so when I do write something, it helps me keep track of my interior landscape all the better. On Apri...
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Tuesday, May 02, 2023

St. Joseph and the Desperation for Consolation

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I was chatting with a priest friend recently about praying the Liturgy of the Hours, and I found that something poked at me like when a meta...
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Sunday, May 16, 2021

Ascension, the Kingdom, and Scampering off, Stage-Right

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The Feast of the Ascension penetrated my mind in a new-feeling way today. God was gracing me to take things in. I can actually share with yo...
Thursday, March 25, 2021

The Day to Say Yes

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Twenty-four years ago today, I set out on a journey home. I had been in Japan for two and a half soul-crushing years, and even though that S...
Saturday, March 06, 2021

The Prodigal, The Fatherless, and St. Joseph

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This morning's Mass has shaken loose quite a bit of useful thought fodder, so here I am to sort it all out. The gospel reading was the p...
Wednesday, August 15, 2018

After Reading the Report

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I combed through the Pennsylvania report yesterday. I feel like vomiting. I also found it very appropriate to hear the beginning of Beethove...
Sunday, April 09, 2017

Life-Changing Holy Week

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Five years ago, I experienced a Holy Week that changed my life. If I had known at the time what lay ahead of me, I probably would have bolte...
Wednesday, March 09, 2016

God is the Redeemer, Even of Scary Childhood Art

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The Lord has been doing some major excavations in me during Lent. And I realize it has been awhile since I have freely written about this ty...
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Thursday, April 09, 2015

Easter Frustrations

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Perhaps because I am perennially optimistic, I think this is a good sign. Almost everywhere I look, everything I listen to within my Catholi...
Wednesday, January 28, 2015

The Gospel Is Not Complicated; I Am

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I've been thinking a lot lately about this image of undoing knots. I've often told my son about how one of Mary's titles is Our ...
Sunday, November 30, 2014

Reporting from the Bottom of the Pit

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So, it's true: I've been feeling the tug of depression lately, and yesterday pretty much the tug-of-war rope snapped and I fell over...