Light in the dark
In the Northern hemisphere, today is the shortest day of the year, the day when we experience the…
With apologies to Agathon
“O happy fault, that earned so great, so glorious a Redeemer!” ~ “The Exsultet: The Proclamation of Easter”…
The beauty of brokenness
An old building in disrepair, collapsing toward the ground. A rusting, defective car, stuck in layers of mud.…
Fear, darkness, and Advent
Lately a certain Gospel instruction is has been grinding challenge into my life, really giving my heart a doozy…
Quaker lessons for a Catholic girl
I grew up as a Quaker in North Carolina. Now I am a Franciscan Sister in Wisconsin. You…
What if Jesus prayed like this?
After all the people had been baptized and Jesus also had been baptized and was praying, heaven was…
The Advent wreath
I’m trying this again. I’m trying the traditional route of Advent. Growing up there were certain traditions my…
Paradox, solidarity and these Advent days
For us Christians, our life is a life full of paradoxes. Heaven is now and not yet. Jesus is with…
Praying in the dark
The light is dim and the air is frigid. With Advent’s arrival in this part of the world,…
beauty with ugly: our real Advent stories
Our lives are made of Advent stories. As advent people, pain and sorrow erupt right with joy and…
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