On faith, prayer, and the quiet journey of the spiritual life.
Published: September 16, 2026 There is a peculiar kind of stubbornness that has nothing to do with lacking evidence and everything to do with refusing to be moved. In today's Gospel, Jesus turns to the crowd and asks a question that still lands with startling precision two thousand years later: ...
Read reflectionPublished: September 15, 2026 Today the Church pauses in the middle of Ordinary Time to keep watch with a grieving mother. The Memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows sets before us one of the shortest and most piercing scen...
Read more →Published: September 14, 2026 Today the Church celebrates the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, a feast that asks us to do something countercultural: to look directly at an instrument of execution and call i...
Read more →Published: September 13, 2026 There is a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from keeping score. Most of us know it well. Someone wrongs us, and some inner accountant opens a ledger. We remember the date, the to...
Read more →Published September 12, 2026 There is a moment in every gardener's life when they realize that no amount of wishing will change what a tree produces. A fig tree will not surprise you with grapes, and a thornbush will...
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