A preacher’s job is harder in the 21st-century United States than in many other places and times. Imagine attending a liturgy and hearing the gospel preached...
Author - Rhonda Miska
Readings (Year C): Acts 5:12-16Psalm 118:2-4, 13-15, 22-24Revelation 1:9-11a, 12-13, 17-19John 20:19-31 Reflection: We are all the walking wounded When have...
The Monastic Heart By Joan Chittister (Convergent Books, 2021) In the sixth century, disheartened by the corruption and chaos of Rome, St. Benedict of Nursia...
Mi primera experiencia de rezar la Liturgia de las Horas, también llamada oficio divino, fue amor a primera vista. En ese entonces estaba en mi primer año de...
“The analogy I was taught in my Catholic parish and at Christian camp was that sexuality was like a rose. Every time you have sex with someone, you pull a...
Readings (Year B) Isaiah 42:1-4, 6-7Psalms 29:1-2, 3-4, 3, 9-101 John 5:1-9Mark 1:7-11 Reflection: Dare to dream big Today we celebrate the Baptism of the Lord...
Every Holy Week, we move through the paschal mystery with our bodies: We carry green palm branches, baskets of bread, bottles of wine, towels and basins; we...
This is one article in a three-part series on pilgrim saints, also including: Work for justice with St. Katharine Drexel and Find God in creation...
It’s so often the women, it seems. Since that first Sunday morning when the myrrh-bearing women made their way to the tomb, it’s so often the women. The ones...
My first experience of praying the Liturgy of the Hours—also called the divine office—was hardly love at first sight. I was an 18-year-old college freshman...
