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Returning to my body and my God, all Lent long

  • March 1, 2023
Return to me with your whole heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning. Rend your hearts, not your garments,…
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The mortals return, as dust and ash.

  • February 22, 2023
As dust, as mortals, we move closer to our graves each day. Lent: this season summons us to…
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Death Poetica

  • March 2, 2022
Behind barbed wire In the county jail Woman recites poetry; Declares she’ll die. Bodies young, old Form lines.…
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Hope and heartache on this side of the grave

  • May 14, 2020
I understand that my death could come any day. My own life experiences have etched this understanding into…
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Lent in a pandemic

  • March 13, 2020
I’ve been inside since Wednesday afternoon.  It all started when a friend, who ministers in New York, texted…
PPrayer and Spirituality

I fasted on only bread and juice for Lent. This is what I learned.

  • March 8, 2019
My stomach felt like an empty pit. There could not possibly have been anything left in the tank.…
PPrayer and Spirituality

Love and ashes

  • February 14, 2018
our bodies make lines and our hearts beat repent, repent make us more honest in forty days conversion…
CChristian Family Life

One life together

  • April 26, 2017
As of the writing of this reflection, Witness Against Torture, The New York Catholic Worker, and Voices for…
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The beauty of brokenness

  • April 5, 2017
An old building in disrepair, collapsing toward the ground. A rusting, defective car, stuck in layers of mud.…
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Signs of spring in Lent

  • March 16, 2016
During this Lenten season, more than any other Lent, I am getting how significant it is that Lent…
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