This plague has opened our hearts and minds to questions that we should have been asking all along: What is most important to us? Do we love well? What can we count on?

Along comes a new opportunity to experience the Passion of Christ this Holy Week and Easter.

There’s an old saying: “Life is fragile. Handle with prayer.” I’m blessed to be alive.

We’ve waited. We’ve watched. And the bird feeder has hung there, full of seeds no one was eating.

Easter will not be cancelled, nor shall our hope that everything will be okay.

Let’s find small and simple ways to walk with Jesus this Holy Week.

Two years after quadruple bypass heart surgery, appreciation for caregivers grows, but still begins in the home.

Happy National Poetry Month!

We can find solace in knowing that holy people such as St. Isaac Jogues have also been separated from reception of the Blessed Sacrament. Maybe we can find courage and perseverance in their example.

So often in Scripture Jesus says to his followers and to us, “Be not afraid.” He’s not asking us to ignore our problems or neglect our loved ones or deny our feelings. He is inviting us to rise above our feelings of fear, to encounter the greatness and glory of God, and in a spirit of humility and contrition to open our hearts to him, perhaps as never before.