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For Your Weekend: Blessed Are You When Your Life Blows Up

February 15, 2025

Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read Luke 6:17,20–26
I gave up coffee for Lent—not last Lent, but this upcoming Lent. I went from drinking two pots a day to nothing—zero cups. I’m already in week three of my coffee fast and have no plans to return. [...]

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For Your Weekend: Leaving the Net Behind

February 8, 2025

Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read Luke 5:1–11
The gospel message is radical, exciting, and life-changing—or at least, it is supposed to be. 
Whether it's my own familiarity of hearing these stories for thirty-two years, my sweet little distractions in the pew beside me, or a less-than-riveting homily, [...]

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For Your Weekend: Cling to Him

February 1, 2025

Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read Luke 2:22–40
It's easy to be drawn to Simeon in this week’s Sunday gospel reading. 
He rightly receives due attention. Simeon’s canticle of praise, as he witnesses the Christ Child presented at the temple, expressed his profound gratitude for having lived long enough to behold his Savior. [...]

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For Your Weekend: We Are Theophilus

January 25, 2025

Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read Luke 1:1–4,4:14–21
I’m staring at a stack of unwritten Christmas cards. I have yet to write or send a single one. The good news is that I’m one of those Catholics who doesn’t officially close out the Christmas season until Candlemas. [...]

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For Your Weekend: Lessons from Cana

January 18, 2025

Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read John 2:1–11
I love that on the Second Sunday of Ordinary Time, we read about Jesus' first miracle, which, admittedly, was anything but ordinary. It’s an intimate miracle, one that’s discreet, ushered into existence by Mary; a miracle witnessed by only a few—the servers, [...]

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For Your Weekend: Live Loved

January 11, 2025

Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read Luke 3:15–16,21–22
I am continually amazed by the life of Scripture, which offers a meaningful message one day and inspires a completely different insight the next. This Sunday's gospel is one such passage. It is a familiar story that we recently read during Advent. [...]

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For Your Weekend: How’s Your Posture?

January 3, 2025

Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read Matthew 2:1–12
Have you ever caught yourself about to genuflect before taking your seat at the movie theatre? I have. Fifty-plus years of genuflecting at Mass has ingrained this action into my brain so much that it happens mindlessly when I see a row of seats.  [...]

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For Your Weekend: Lingering in the Darkness

December 16, 2024

Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read Luke 1:39–45
December 22 marks the final Sunday of Advent. Though some years we are granted nearly a full week to savor the closing days before Christmas, this year, the fourth week of Advent is fleeting—only three days long. With so little time, [...]

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For Your Weekend: The Joy of John the Baptist

December 9, 2024

Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read Luke 3:10–18
When I ask you to think of John the Baptist, what are the first few words that come to mind? 
Perhaps the word cousin or maybe locusts? You might think of the River Jordan or repentance. [...]

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For Your Weekend: Repair and Prepare

December 7, 2024

Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read Luke 3:1–6
There are two kinds of people: prepared and unprepared. I’m definitely on “team prepared” and amazed that not all of my children got this gene. How do I know? Well, when your kid doesn’t practice parking thinking he can “wing it” on his road test, [...]

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