As a child, every December marked the month in which Mary would appear in my life. I’d carefully unwrap her from the wrinkled tissue paper and place her in the…
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A Remedy for Drizzly Novembers
It is mid-November, and even though here in North Texas this month ushers in some of our finest weather, it always looms as something dreary in my imagination. Perhaps I’ve…
A Sacrifice of Praise
For the last six months, after the blessing of our evening meal, my three-year-old, with eyes scrunched closed and hands folded reverently, has added an earnest prayer: “For mommy seahorses…
Our Lady, Undoer of Knots
They often come to me, frustrated to the point of tears, and thrust the source of their pain into my lap— the tangled mess of puppet strings, the heap of…
The Desire for the Desire
When Masses across our diocese shut down this past March and the Sunday obligation was dispensed, I will confess, with a bit of shame, that among the sadness I felt…
The Imaginary World of St. Ignatius – Part Two
Last week, in celebration of the feast of St. Ignatius, I reflected upon the circumstances of Ignatius’s conversion and how God worked—through the reading of particular books—to reshape Ignatius’s desires….
