The Jesus in Whose Steps We Wish to Walk

Yesterday was the second gathering of the Lent Retreat in Daily Living I am offering at UST Law School this Lent. The theme of the retreat this year is Walking in the Footsteps of Jesus. Last week the retreatants spent the week with prayer material designed to help them get in touch with God’s overwhelming [...]

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Being Prophets, Not Just Protesters

I’m guest blogger today over at the Center for FaithJustice blog. Given an invitation to write about anything having to so with faith, justice or service, I chose to write about our call to be prophets and about the distinction between being a prophet and merely being a protester. Here is an excerpt of my [...]

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Jesus and Acceptance of the Real World

On the plane to and from New York, I was reading Rowan Williams, Where God Happens: Discovering Christ in One Another, which had been recommended to me some time ago by a friend (and which I had started reading last month and got distracted from). It is a wonderful book that shares with us the [...]

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Celebrating a Life

Yessterday we buried my Aunt Bunny. After a two-day wake during which family and friends from came from far and wide to pay their respects, we gathered at St. Clare’s Church in Staten Island for the funeral mass, following which a caravan of cars followed the hearse to Resurrection Cemetary, where my aunt was buried [...]

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Favorite Saints

As regular (or even occasional) readers of this blog know, the saints occupy an important places in my life. The communion of saints is an important image for me – a reminder that we are never alone in our spiritual journay – and I’ve written here about many individual saints who have been friends, models [...]

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Abstinence

Fridays in Lent are days of abstinence, which means abstaining from eating meat. Fasting (required on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday) and abstinence (required on Ash Wednesday, Good Friday and all Fridays during Lent) are penitential practices expected to be observed by healthy Catholic adults. Neither practice is all that onerous. Fasting in the Catholic [...]

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Death and Complicated Feelings

In a couple of hours my husband and I will fly to New York for the wake and funeral of my aunt, who died Tuesday night. I was fortunate enough to spend this past Friday through Monday visiting with her in the hospital in New York – getting to say good-bye and I love you [...]

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Following in the Footsteps of Jesus

Happy Ash Wednesday! Today is the beginning of the 40-day period we call Lent, a penitential season during which we are invited to deepen our conversion in Christ. Yesterday was the first session of the Lent Retreat in Daily Living I am offering at UST Law School. The theme of this retreat is Following in [...]

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The Lenten Invitation to Deepen our Prayer Lives

It is hard to believe it, but Lent begins in a couple of days. I don’t know if it is the mildness of the winter or something else, but the time between Christmas and now has passed like a flash. Last week, I spoke at St. Edward’s Catholic Church on The Lenten Invitation to Deepen [...]

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Ready or Not, Here Comes Lent

Wednesday is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the 40-day period preceding the death and then resurrection of Christ. For Catholics and many Protestants, Lent is a special time in the liturgical cycle, a a time in which we are invited to focus in a special way on our life with God – to see where [...]

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