The season upon us now, Advent, is a time to prepare our minds and hearts to celebrate the coming of God into our world.

Yale historian Timothy Snyder thinks that, measured by the criteria of the Genocide Convention (to which Russia is a party), the Russian war in Ukraine is genocidal.

Maybe you didn’t even realize Advent had started. You feel like you’ve fallen behind. Advent will rush by, and Christmas will come, and you’ll never catch up.

~1~ I had thought that this would be the first Thanksgiving we would spend with extended family since 2019. By Wednesday afternoon, however, I could see that that wasn’t going to happen, thanks to a few sicknesses running through the family. My mother told me she would be happy to share the food she had […]

May this season of gatherings offer us opportunities to open our arms and hearts to others – and to be ready to entertain angels along the way.

I groaned as I saw the frost on my car. And then I saw the smile.

God may not have invented the cell phone or the bacon-egg-and-cheese bagel, but he did create us and he knows where we are weak.

Before we sit down to our Thanksgiving feasts let’s mark the day spiritually by attending Mass, praying the Psalms of thanksgiving (Psalms 113-118), or at the very least, pausing with loved ones to give voice to our blessings, despite our difficulties.

We are still eating our way through the apples we picked last week, so I made an apple cake. Our house smells sweet and cinnamon, but this beautiful cake only used six apples.

Like many other people, we bought a Powerball ticket. Then we did a little dreaming.