Sacrifice, not self-care
Make sure to put your own oxygen mask on first. When a plane is experiencing difficulties and the…
The joy of being surpassed
Pass on what you have learned. Strength, mastery, hmm … but weakness, folly, failure also. Yes: failure, most…
Preaching the Gospel for the first time … again
I sat down in front of 15 pre-K students for our bi-weekly Bible story time, expecting more or…
Do you know who you’re talking to?
As I walked down the hall and into our parish’s Spanish language youth group meeting after a very…
Toward the fire
In 2002, during the months in which the The Boston Globe released the findings of its investigation into…
Namesake
“Lord, have mercy/ On my descendants/ For they know not/ What they do/ For they know not Who…
So naive
“It [grace] strikes us when, year after year, the longed-for perfection of life does not appear, when the…
Don’t blink
There is nothing everyone is so afraid of as of being told how vastly much he is capable…
Again
I tense up slightly as I see my daughter toddling over to me holding the telltale green and…
I’m so glad you called
His son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you; I no longer deserve…
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