I sit at the desk in my little home office. A fall sun streams through the window, pouring brilliant light on my plant. If a plant could speak, I know it would tell me how happy it is. It’s a perfect Monday — comfortable temperatures, no wind, a cloudless blue sky. My window is open […]
Kathleen T. Choi: A senior confession
Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. It’s been a month since my last confession, but the sins are the same. I have a happy marriage, but my darling does everything so slowly these days, it drives me nuts! I understand that anger comes from fear. We’re senior citizens. We worry about our savings and […]
Msgr. Owen F. Campion | 24TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME: The suffering servant
Isaiah 50:5-9a; James 2:14-18; Mark 8:27-35 The last and third section of the Book of Isaiah provides the first reading for this weekend in Ordinary Time. This passage is one of several similar sections in Trito-Isaiah. Together they are called the Songs of the Suffering Servant. Poetic and expressive, they figure in the liturgies of […]
Father Kenneth Doyle | QUESTION CORNER: May my disabled husband receive the sacraments?
Q: Over the past few years, my husband has suffered a traumatic brain injury and, more recently, has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. I would like him to participate in all the sacraments, as he has done faithfully since he was a child. He attends Mass with me but does not remember any prayers, cannot […]
Manaolana | Christina Capecchi: The pope’s ravioli story: questions that unlock wisdom
I’m reading a book that speaks to me as a journalist, Brian Grazer’s 2015 release “A Curious Mind: The Secret To A Bigger Life.” In it, the 64-year-old Emmy-winning movie producer recounts his practice of conducting “curiosity conversations” twice a month for the past three decades to fill up his knowledge reserve and walk […]
Kathleen T. Choi: He talks with me
Lily Tomlin jokes that when we talk to God, we’re said to be praying, but when God talks to us, we’re said to be schizophrenic. Maybe I’m crazy, but I believe God talks to me. Frankly, he talks to me far more often than I listen. The primary way I hear God’s voice is through […]
Tony Magliano: No school for these children
It’s that time again when adults celebrate Labor Day, and kids head back to school. But for millions of children worldwide the adventures of a new school year remain but a dream. Sadly, these children will never learn to read or write. They will not acquire computer skills. They will not experience singing in chorus, […]
Mary Adamski | View from the Pew: The Mountain
I told a friend that I want to write about The Mountain and she immediately tried to argue me out of it. “It’s just sticking your neck out to be harassed,” was the prediction. “You’re the wrong ethnic persuasion to dare to have an opinion.” But the subject of The Mountain has arisen in things […]
Talk story | Office for Social Ministry: Bread, broken, nourishing others
“I am the bread of life … whoever eats this bread will live forever.” (John 6:35) When we were on Lanai recently for eucharistic ministry, the weekend Gospel contained the passage about Jesus being “the Bread of Life.” We are blessed to believe in a God who left us his presence in food — the […]
Father Eugene Hemrick | The Human Side: Making something good out of depression
Without warning, depression hit me one day. Then came the panic attacks and mental paralysis. Life suddenly had no meaning. I found myself wanting to go back to sleep, hoping that when I awoke, I would be normal again. As I sat helplessly staring out the window, I remembered what an old Benedictine teacher once […]
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