Happy Easter! Nope, we’re not wishing you a belated Easter. Instead, we’re wishing you a happy Easter season. Easter isn’t just one day of celebration! As Catholics, we celebrate the joy and beauty of Easter for fifty days. Yep, you read that right....
I’ve been thinking again. I hate it, but I do it from time to time, or all the time, in fact. I’d rather not think. Ignorant bliss. Comfortably numb. It’s better that way. Don’t you think? But I’ve been thinking lately. About death. About grief. I’ve been thinking...
If you’re like, well, most people at this point, you’re very likely to start feeling the weight of being on lockdown. The cabin fever is beginning to set (especially for those of us who live in apartments and don’t get space to go outside). The “break” so many of us...
For some of us it has been over a month since we last partook of the Holy Eucharist. Others, like those in Northern Italy, have been without for over 8 weeks. Though priests throughout the world are still celebrating Mass, the general public is unable to go to Mass in...
One dark night,Fired with love’s urgent longings— Ah, the sheer grace! —I went out unseen,My house being now all stilled.The Dark Night of the Soul. Poem by St. John of the Cross Five centuries ago a little monk was locked in a six foot by ten foot room. For nine...
In the weeks leading up to Holy Week and Easter, the Catholic Church encourages us to persevere in our Lenten penances so that we can “come safely to the paschal festivities.” But what if paschal festivities look different this year than ever before? For...
