The tender theology of lullabies October 23, 2025By Laura Kelly Fanucci OSV News Filed Under: Uncategorized With gentle rocking rhythms, generations of parents have hushed their children to sleep with the same songs, the tunes we know by heart, the words we heard from our elders, the gifts we now pass to our young.
Where is God when we’re grieving at home? September 19, 2025By Laura Kelly Fanucci OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Gun Violence The Psalms remind us that we can bring all our human emotions and experiences to God, holding nothing back.
What a beautiful family August 25, 2025By Laura Kelly Fanucci OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Marriage & Family Life The Body of Christ is a beautiful, diverse family. We are single and married, divorced and widowed. We have built families through adoption and fostering, marriage and birth.
How to grow in faith for back-to-school July 30, 2025By Laura Kelly Fanucci OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Schools Just as Jesus breathed on his disciples and gave them the gift of the Holy Spirit — as you kiss or hug your kids when they head off to school or daycare — the Holy Spirit remains with you, to inspire your daily labors.
Kids need lots of people who love them July 21, 2025By Laura Kelly Fanucci OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Youth Ministry From lifelong commitments to the children we love, to volunteering with kids who need extra support, to simply opening our hearts to the delightful (if sometimes distracting!) presence of the young church with us at Mass, God gives us many ways to care for the children in our lives.
The truth about transitions June 18, 2025By Laura Kelly Fanucci OSV News Filed Under: Commentary Life asks us to say yes through the pain. Jesus asks us to follow where we do not want to go.
On Ascension, absence and true love May 21, 2025By Laura Kelly Fanucci OSV News Filed Under: Commentary Mothering is a presence that pulses in flesh and blood. A love that can never go absent, even when it looks like it has left.
Walking the Emmaus road as a family April 21, 2025By Laura Kelly Fanucci OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Easter The road to Emmaus reminds us that Christ goes with us everywhere, walking and talking among us: in our conversations and debates, in ordinary meals and sacred liturgies, in journeys near and far. Our hearts burn within us, too, whenever we realize he has been right next to us all along.
Family is where we learn to serve the least among us February 18, 2025By Laura Kelly Fanucci Filed Under: Commentary, Marriage & Family Life Family is the way that we learn to love, serve and humble ourselves over and over again to care for Christ in our midst.
The power of a ‘nudge’ to pray January 24, 2025By Laura Kelly Fanucci OSV News Filed Under: Commentary Learning about the power of the nudge can help us make — and keep — new habits.
Every dawn an Advent, every day a New Year December 16, 2024By Laura Kelly Fanucci OSV News Filed Under: Advent, Commentary Each day we stand before the doors of chronos and kairos. We can enter into the frantic, fast-paced, nonstop rush of consumerist culture, with its endless urgent cries of “buy, buy, buy” and “more, more, more.” Or we can turn and open another door, the quieter way of faith.
Liturgical living is for adults, too October 11, 2024By Laura Kelly Fanucci OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Marriage & Family Life Celebrating the church year can be as simple as changing your prayer habits in small ways or incorporating the liturgical seasons into daily life.
