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For Your Weekend: What Anxiety Never Learned

June 20, 2026

Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read Matthew 10:26–33
As a family, we have instituted Friday movie nights. Each week, a different child picks a movie for us to watch together. This week’s choice? One of our favorites: Inside Out 2.
As is often the case with Pixar movies, [...]

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For Your Weekend: The Harvest at Your Doorstep

June 13, 2026

Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read Matthew 9:36–10:8
Friends, let me introduce you to my parents. All my life, my mom and dad have witnessed to me what a life on mission looks like and set the example for me to follow. In addition to the mission of our home—loving and raising their family with intentionality and focus, [...]

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For Your Weekend: Hidden in Plain Sight

June 6, 2026

Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read John 6:51–58
This past weekend found me stress cleaning my house and chasing my 7-year-old around our church while her first Communion veil repeatedly slipped out of her hair. Caroline, our peaches and cream middle daughter, had the joy of receiving her first Communion with several of her closest friends and cousins. [...]

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For Your Weekend: Let Go and Let God Love John 3:16

May 30, 2026

Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read John 3:16–18
Currently, I am packing up our home for a long-distance move. After years of patiently waiting for my adult children to leave the nest, I’m surprised by how difficult it is to let go of things as we plan to downsize. [...]

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For Your Weekend: The Same Spirit

May 23, 2026

Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read John 20:19–23
Tomorrow, my husband and I will stand at the baptismal font as we watch our goddaughter, Chiara Rose, be baptized in the Holy Trinity—Father, Son, and Spirit. Her immersion into these waters symbolizes "not only death and purification, [...]

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For Your Weekend: What to Do about Doubt

May 16, 2026

Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read Matthew 28:16–20
I do. The words came easily at first, practiced, familiar.
​It was Easter Vigil Mass, a most solemn, reverent liturgy. The Church was full, the light soft, the air fragrant with incense. As a community, we were invited to stand and renew our baptismal promises—to remember who we are and whose we are. [...]

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For Your Weekend: When “I Can’t” Meets “He Can”

May 9, 2026

Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read John 14:15-21
Have you ever found yourself at the end of your rope? I’m going to assume that you, like me, are human, flawed, and have definitely had days that felt like I just can’t do it. [...]

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For Your Weekend: The Way Home

May 2, 2026

Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read John 14:1–12
“Do not let your hearts be troubled” (John 14:1). If only we truly received this invitation.
We recently took a big leap and transferred our kids—in the middle of the year—to a new school. This decision was born from a hard season of watching our kids struggle, [...]

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For Your Weekend: The Shepherd, a Coyote, and the Abundant Life

April 25, 2026

Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read John 10:1–10
Early one morning last week, we saw a coyote in our backyard, hanging out by our pool. Since he was an uninvited guest, when spotted in our suburban oasis he scurried into the shrubbery and up the hill. [...]

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For Your Weekend: When Hope Walks Alongside Us

April 18, 2026

Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read Luke 24:13–35
A painting of the disciples on the road to Emmaus hangs in my home. It was given to me by a friend and past mentor—someone who helped shape my faith, who taught me to listen patiently and be gentle with and to accompany those walking their own long roads of disbelief and disappointment, [...]

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