In December, I attended a Mass marking the start of the Jubilee 2025 celebrations. I sat next to a young mom and her three daughters. During the homily, I...
The Examined Life
“Now during those days he went out to the mountain to pray, and he spent the night in prayer to God.” • (Luke 6:12) You might say that it was Thérèse who...
This month is the Feast of Epiphany, when we celebrate the coming of the magi to the Christ child and recognize that Jesus came for all—Gentiles and Jews, even...
Back in June, I attended the 2024 Association of U.S. Catholic Priests Assembly in Lexington, Kentucky as part of a working group on women in the church. Along...
I recently reread C. S. Lewis’ Out of the Silent Planet, the first book in his Space Trilogy. The story follows a philologist, Ransom, who is kidnapped and...
And I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write this: Blessed are the dead who from now on die in the Lord.” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “they will rest from their...
Last June, a friend invited me to attend Mass at a parish I had never visited before on the same weekend as the Los Angeles Pride parade. Before attending, I...
At first I started looking at the bush because I was bored and a little frustrated. I was on a walk in the woods with my husband and toddler, and I found...
“We will all be changed, in an instant, in the blink of an eye, at the last trumpet.” • (1 Cor. 15:51–52) There is a saying from Heraclitus: “No one ever steps...
I recently became a godmother for the second time in my life, which made me quite nervous. I wasn’t concerned with the part about “being a spiritual mentor”: I...
