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Dear Reader, As I write, it is certainly wintertime here in North America. The wooly worms whose development gets our attention in Kentucky during late fall kept us on alert to their predictions of lots of snow with temperatures “not…
Genesis 9:8-15 1 Peter 3:18-22 Mark 1:12-15 Today is the first Sunday of Lent. So, my question to you is: How has your attitude toward Lent changed throughout your life? For me, in my very early life it was always…
Together this year, our Loretto Justice Fellows will contribute more than 3,300 service hours to partner organizations at the U.S./Mexico border while connecting with each other and Loretto Community members. Annie Rosenkranz, director, Loretto Justice Fellowship The Loretto Justice Fellowship…
Hansen’s Disease is a frightening, painful disease that for centuries was only cured by death. It is highly contagious, which as you know, fostered isolation and fear of anyone who might have contracted it. The Hebrew laws forbade lepers to…
Today we go from abject failure to a light at the end of the tunnel. I know I have had “Job” moments in my life journey. Debilitating health conditions, the military takeover in Chile, the divisions in the U.S. that…
Deuteronomy 18:15-20, Mark 1:21-28 Jesus is in Capernaum. It is early in his public life. Things go well. In Mark’s Gospel before the section we just heard, Jesus had met Simon and Andrew, then James and John. He had asked…
Our readings today continue the theme of call and response. As a child, I grew up in a small town in close proximity to a Baptist church, and I had an opportunity to watch what they did and how they…
1 Samuel 3 1 Corinthians 6 John 1 One sentence in the reading from Samuel caught my attention: “At that time Samuel was not familiar with God because God had not revealed anything to him as yet.” The sentence made me…
For today’s homily, I was going to use three poems: one by T.S. Eliot and two responses to that poem, Medical Mission Sister Margaret Moran’s and mine. As I reread them, I discovered they were our thinking in 1990, which…
Numbers 6:22-27, Galatians 4:4-7, Luke 2:16-21 We just heard in the first reading about God telling Moses to instruct Aaron and his children just how to bless the people. A wonderful blessing God speaks to Moses: May God bless you, and keep you;May…
In my own life this feast of the Holy Family has always been a challenge. As a child it was the feast of the perfect family. It was the measure of a family – the perfect child with the perfect…
Jesus was wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in a manger. What was God thinking? I walked around the dining room several times preparing for this homily, looking at all the stables or creches, French for crib – a prettier…