Welcome to the summer of low expectations June 22, 2020By Rita Buettner Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window Most years when the school year ends, I take off from work for the first week of summer break. The boys and I have a week of fun. We hit arcades, eat and explore our way through the area, and sometimes throw in an overnight trip to see our cousins in New York. This year […]
Our fathers … ourselves June 20, 2020By Suzanna Molino Singleton Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Snippets of Faith Think about the ways you are like your father, whether he is here or in heaven. Consider the good parts you’ve inherited, the ones ingrained in your genes.
The novelty of pet ownership, pandemic dreams, fireworks, and an anniversary (7 Quick Takes) June 19, 2020By Rita Buettner Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window We are in a sweet honeymoon period with our new pet birds. Everything they do is fascinating.
Introducing… June 18, 2020By Rita Buettner Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window Our younger son has loved birds for as long as I can remember. And, at some point during this pandemic, he started asking for a pet bird.
People call me ‘Father,’ but I don’t have kids June 18, 2020By Father Richard Malloy, S.J. Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary The older I get, the more in awe I am of the witness and self-sacrificial love parents have for their children.
Lessons from an unusual school year June 17, 2020By Rita Buettner Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window What have we learned over the past three months?
Grief and Protest June 16, 2020By Beth L. Hewett Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary, Racial Justice Grief is absolutely essential to being human, to being fully alive. When we cannot experience, own and befriend our grief, we cannot sustain our hearts.
St. Anthony and the Eucharist June 15, 2020By Father J. Collin Poston Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Dust and Dewfall, Uncategorized May our eucharistic Jesus give us that renewed life, and powerfully change and transform us from the inside out.
Greeting uncertainty with optimism June 15, 2020By Rita Buettner Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, The Domestic Church Uncertainty can be scary. But just because the future is unclear doesn’t mean that what lies ahead is terrible.
St. Anthony’s feast day, feed the hummingbirds, the perfect egg sandwich, and more (7 Quick Takes) June 13, 2020By Rita Buettner Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window Even though St. Anthony may have had a way with words, he is quoted as saying, “Actions speak louder than words; let your words teach and your actions speak.”
Silence in the domestic church June 12, 2020By Archbishop William E. Lori Filed Under: Charity in Truth, Commentary, Coronavirus For a parish church to be a place of prayer, there have to be times of silence. For a domestic church to be a place of prayer and formation, there also needs to be periods of silence.
I am a white mamma of bi-racial children June 11, 2020By Suzanna Molino Singleton Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Snippets of Faith My husband says I will never understand what it is like to be the only black person in a room, that I will never understand what it is like when strangers look at him a certain way – he’s absolutely right.
