Don’t wait until life isn’t hard anymore before deciding to live the best you can. Love while you have the chance. Don’t blame the difficult circumstances or the people who don’t […]

Where am I? Right here. What should I be doing? Just be.

The renowned liturgist and writer, Robert Hovda, reminds us, “To speak of the environmental and artistic requirements in Catholic worship, we have to begin with ourselves—we who are the church.  While […]

Our primary soul work is to explore our deepest longings, discern where we belong, seek beauty, and become compassion.  Then, two things will define our life: gratitude and generativity.

Either you transform pain within yourself or it is always an outflowing wound. You are transformed when you can refuse to project your anxieties elsewhere, and learn to hold and […]

“Life and love are cumulative, growing, and going somewhere that is always new and always more.” Richard Rohr At mass today, I prayed in the name of God who is Mother, […]

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Why does life seem so hard at times? Somehow I believe that we’re here to take care of each other.  Clearly, that is the teaching of Jesus.   We know at […]

In Ireland, complaining is called “Giving Out.”  The Irish are master complainers.  Complaining is like a national sport… and we’re very good at it!  Sometimes we don’t know which complaint to […]

Does this mean that the “blessings” I have invoked with/for people who identify as LGBTQ are now in question? I assure you—in those blessings, the love of Christ was abundantly […]