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Our New Neighbours

Post author:Claudia Stecker
Post published:March 18, 2024
Post category:Mission Work Social Justice
Post comments:2 Comments

It is Monday morning, and I am at the Migrant Center of the Church of St. Francis of Assisi in Manhattan, one of a team of volunteers readying ourselves to…

Reflection for the Fifth Sunday in Lent B

Post author:Susan K. Roll
Post published:March 15, 2024
Post category:Scripture Reading
Post comments:1 Comment

Jeremiah 31: 31-34 (RM) or 1-12 (RCL); Psalm 51; Hebrews 5: 7-9 (RM) or 5-10 (RCL); John 12: 20-33. If you happen to live in the Northern Hemisphere, it’s the…

Women Are Not Roles in the Church. We Are Persons. And Always Have Been: Part II

Post author:Susan K. Roll
Post published:March 13, 2024
Post category:Women in the Church
Post comments:2 Comments

Susan Roll is speaking to a conference in the Netherlands this week, and her regular Scripture reflection is not available. In its place, Susan has agreed to our publishing a…

Being a Death Doula

Post author:Petite Lao
Post published:March 11, 2024
Post category:Death & Dying Grief
Post comments:4 Comments

My mother, Trinidad, recently transitioned from her earthly life to God’s embrace, leaving our family grappling with grief. Despite the comfort our faith tradition offers, her passing was an ordeal…

Women Are Not Roles in the Church. We Are Persons. And Always Have Been.

Post author:Susan K. Roll
Post published:March 8, 2024
Post category:Women in the Church
Post comments:1 Comment

Susan Roll is speaking to a conference in the Netherlands this week, and her regular Scripture reflection is not available. In its place, Susan has agreed to our publishing a…

Option for the Poor

Post author:Susan Smith
Post published:March 4, 2024
Post category:Poverty Social Justice
Post comments:1 Comment

A Theology of Liberation In 1973, Peruvian theologian Gustavo Gutierrez’s ground-breaking A Theology of Liberation was published in English. This wonderfully erudite yet readable publication invited disciples of Jesus to…

Reflection for the Third Sunday in Lent B

Post author:Susan K. Roll
Post published:March 1, 2024
Post category:Scripture Reading
Post comments:1 Comment

Exodus 20: 1-17; Psalm 116 (RM) or 22 (RCL); Psalm 19; 1 Corinthians 1: 18, 22-25 (RM) or 18-25 (RCL); John 2: 13-25 (RM) or 18-22 (RCL). An old friend…

Seed-Saving in February?

Post author:Wendy MacLean
Post published:February 26, 2024
Post category:Food and Gardening
Post comments:4 Comments

Recently I attended a local Seedy Saturday event. The venue was set up with several long tables laden with packets of seeds donated by attendees for the seed-sharing part of…

Reflection for the Second Sunday in Lent B

Post author:Susan K. Roll
Post published:February 23, 2024
Post category:Scripture Reading
Post comments:1 Comment

Genesis 22: 1-2, 9a, 10-13, 15-18 (RM) or Genesis 17: 1-7, 15-16 (RCL); Psalm 116 (RM) or 22 (RCL); Romans 8: 31b-34 (RM) or 4: 13-25 (RCL); Mark 9: 2-10…

A Musing on Charism (Part I of II)

Post author:Sandra Stewart
Post published:February 19, 2024
Post category:Cosmology Divine Missions
Post comments:3 Comments

The Gift of the SpiritWhen it comes to the charism — the gift of the Spirit — that animates our RNDM lives, I am struck by a simple truth: it…