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Jesus shows us how genuine concern for others is the way out of darkness by Sister Lynne Marie Simonich For those parishes with a Rite of Chistian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) process this Lent, the... Read More

After my confession a few weeks ago, as a penance Father suggested that during the next day I meditate on God’s boundless mercy and compassionate forgiveness. Often in the intervening days a... Read More

This week we hear and reflect on one of the most powerful stories of wonder and awe, found in the Book of Exodus. While Moses is taking care of his father-in-law’s flock something in the distance... Read More

Lent is a time to enter into Jesus’ exodus -- His passion, death and resurrection – as well as remember his connection to the first exodus – God’s people escaping slavery in Egypt. We are, in a... Read More

Each year in Lent the Church invites us into a time of renewal -– a spiritual springtime of remembering and recommitting ourselves to Jesus.  The Gospel states that Jesus was baptized in the Jordan,... Read More

The concluding lines of Sunday's second reading from St. Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians caught my reflective eye. With thoughts of Lent approaching, and our school staff journeying together... Read More

by Sister Mary Kabat We have heard this challenging message of Jesus from the time we were children.  Our parents tried to get us to “feel” the pain we had just inflicted on our sibling.  They tried... Read More

This Sunday’s readings, particularly Jesus’ sermon on the plain, remind us that the things of this world do not bring us real sustained joy. Only Jesus does. Not possessions, not success. Only Jesus.... Read More

Sometimes we need to read between the lines to grasp a full understanding of a passage or story. In this Sunday’s Gospel from Luke 5:1-11, I think the full understanding is in something we can’t read... Read More

Recently I enjoyed the newly released Disney movie “Mary Poppins Returns”. For two hours of musical magic, viewers like myself were enchanted by looking at life’s losses, challenges, fears through a... Read More