Commentary

People call me ‘Father,’ but I don’t have kids

The older I get, the more in awe I am of the witness and self-sacrificial love parents have for their children.
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Grief and Protest

Grief is absolutely essential to being human, to being fully alive. When we cannot experience, own and befriend our grief, we cannot sustain our hearts.
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St. Anthony and the Eucharist

May our eucharistic Jesus give us that renewed life, and powerfully change and transform us from the inside out.
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Greeting uncertainty with optimism

Uncertainty can be scary. But just because the future is unclear doesn’t mean that what lies ahead is terrible.
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St. Anthony’s feast day, feed the hummingbirds, the perfect egg sandwich, and more (7 Quick Takes)

Even though St. Anthony may have had a way with words, he is quoted as saying, “Actions speak louder than words; let your words teach and your actions speak.”
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Silence in the domestic church

For a parish church to be a place of prayer, there have to be times of silence. For a domestic church to be a place of prayer and formation, there also needs to be periods of silence.
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I am a white mamma of bi-racial children

My husband says I will never understand what it is like to be the only black person in a room, that I will never understand what it is like when strangers look at him a certain way – he’s absolutely right.
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99 Flyswatters on the Wall…

Everyone needs a little project during this stay-at-home time.
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Poetry Madness

If you have some extra summer time on your hands, read the poems and complete your own Poetry Madness bracket.
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Extraordinary evangelization in extraordinary times

What Father Sherbrooke has done at St. Patrick’s in London in his 17 years as its pastor is little short of miraculous.
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Invisible powers

Over the centuries, we humans have survived plagues and famines and natural disasters. I don’t pretend to know why God allows them, but I do know that as a human race we survive them.
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