Dubuque Area Catholic Sisters held a Prayer Service for Immigrant Children on July 18, 2019, at Mount St. Francis Chapel in Dubuque, Iowa. The prayer was held in solidarity with the Leadership Conference of Women Religious and other Catholic organizations…
I grapple with this question each Good Friday morning at the Pentagon. At 7:00 a.m. thirty to fifty people meet on Army-Navy Drive just outside the Pentagon property, we walk in solemn procession to the “protest area” allotted near a…
On hearing God’s messages spoken through an angel, Joseph becomes a man of action: He woke up. He got up. He obeyed.
When I read the words, “Return, O Israel, to Your God.” in the reading from Hosea, I heard echoes of Ash Wednesday. In Joel 2:12, God says to us “Return to me with your whole heart.” I also hear the…
God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son; so that everyone who believes in him might have eternal life (JN 3:16). Jealousy, resentment, and anger, all destructive emotions, nearly consume Joseph’s brothers: “When his brothers saw that…
Years ago, I was ministering at Peshawbestown, a reservation on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. It was Christmas Eve. Father and I had finished setting out gifts for the children in the hall adjacent to the church. A young couple entered the…
A DREAMER shares: ... I grew up reciting the Pledge of Allegiance and proudly singing the National Anthem. I grew up learning what it means to be an American. I am an American!
Everyone has a vocation. Whether living our lives as married, single or religious God calls us to be faithful to the Gospel and to be a loving people. Our challenge is to listen and discern how to respond to that…
Today was a busy day. Madre Cindy led us on a walking tour of the Working Boys Center #2. Cindy told us that it is the only organization in Ecuador that works with the entire family as a unit.
After our arrival at the Working Boys' Center in Quito, our first reflection had us looking at the four BVM Core Values: Freedom, Charity, Education and Justice. It will be our job to find real and meaningful actions that express these…