Genius of the Call

When I was in college, the chapel in my dorm had very beautiful white stone stations of the cross. As a young woman discerning my vocation, I was particularly drawn to the station where Jesus meets the women of Jerusalem. In the image, there were two women, one with a baby on her hip and …READ MORE

When my father died in my childhood home, right within the four walls of the room I was born in, my mom and I were torn—hearts rendered broken by a shattered fate. I look back and can scarcely imagine how she, how my siblings and I, made it through. I was too young to hold …READ MORE

Yesterday my husband and I traveled all of ten miles to my daughter’s home. We were attending the annual recitation and dance her children put on at the end of the school year. As I listened to the Ogden Nash poetry, the Slovak folk songs, and the Scripture verses, I found myself somewhere between the …READ MORE

As they were watching, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight (Acts 1:9). After his Resurrection Jesus appeared to his disciples and encouraged them with many signs and proofs. He commissioned them to go and share the good news throughout the world. Jesus blessed them, strengthened them, and would …READ MORE

Motherhood is a sacred invitation to participate deeply in the life of Christ. I remember this realization rushing upon me once again at the birth of my fourth child, Isaac. My husband and I had suffered the loss of eight babies to miscarriage before Isaac was born. My labor with him was long and difficult …READ MORE

“The Bridegroom is with you!” John Paul proclaimed this in 1994, in his “Letter to Families.” Jesus is present as Bridegroom in the sacramental mystery of the ordinary human bridegroom and bride who become an icon of Jesus’ own nuptial covenant with his bride, the Church. St. John Paul II was making a beautiful theological …READ MORE