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Rutabagas in the grocery store

This Thanksgiving, Please Pass the Rutabaga

November 24, 2025
By Rita Buettner
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window

To be clear, I wouldn’t describe myself as a rutabaga enthusiast. It’s just that you can’t have Thanksgiving without rutabaga.

Gray and white gloves rest on part of a red coat

Just what we need

November 20, 2025
By Rita Buettner
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window

I realize there is a glove in each pocket, long forgotten and left behind from last winter.

Stained glass window shows hands lifting a host with IHS on it

A Piece of the Big Host

November 13, 2025
By Rita Buettner
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window

I love when I walk up for Communion, hold out my hands for the Eucharist, and the priest gives me a piece of the host that he has just consecrated.

Streaks of pink and purple clouds in a sunrise sky

See You There

November 6, 2025
By Rita Buettner
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window

I never know what to say, but I know how to be present. And I have to hope that that’s enough.

Fr. Greg Boyle, S.J., speaks from a podium with a crucifix hanging on one side and his image displayed on a video screen on the other side

‘You’re Here! You’re Here’

October 26, 2025
By Rita Buettner
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window

I love thinking of God’s love in that way, how he loves us simply as we are, with no expectation for what we might achieve.

Grocery store with caution signs in the background where a spill is being cleaned up

Clean-up in Aisle 9

October 22, 2025
By Rita Buettner
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window

How often we create messes in our lives—whether we’re spilling something in aisle nine, hurting someone’s feelings, or taking a step that causes issues.

Leaves start to change color on branches of a tree set against a cloudless blue sky

What makes us leave, what helps us stay

October 14, 2025
By Rita Buettner
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window

I was thinking about how often people share with me their reasons for leaving a particular parish.

A hand holds a Rosary with a crucifix prominently displayed

Fall Brings Sweater Weather…and Rosary Season

October 6, 2025
By Rita Buettner
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window

On a page, the words might seem like a repetitive series. But as with many spiritual practices, the Rosary is what you make of it.

Caprese salad on a plate with a ball of mozzarella on a piece of fried eggplant atop greens

It rolled off the table and onto the floor…

September 27, 2025
By Rita Buettner
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window

Even though we had all been friendly enough earlier, the whole mood changed. We were no longer simply diners in the restaurant.

View of a church with a dome and a crucifix and pews

The day I hit my Mass goal (and kept going)

September 22, 2025
By Rita Buettner
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window

As we were beginning 2025, I decided to kick it up a notch. Why not try to go to 150 Masses?

hosts sit on plates ready for communion at church

From His Hands

September 13, 2025
By Rita Buettner
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window

As we inched forward, I watched him lift each host and place it into people’s hands. I was in awe that our son is so grown up.

Child points to Murray and Ripken jerseys framed on the wall

Cal Ripken, Carlo Acutis, Pier Georgio Frassati, and Heroes in Our Lives

September 8, 2025
By Rita Buettner
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window, Uncategorized

As we marked the anniversary of Cal breaking the streak, lots of those decades-old emotions came back.

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