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For Your Weekend: Why We Suffer and the Cow on the Roof

September 14, 2024

Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read Mark 8:27–35
Every Sunday after Mass, my husband and I join my parents for breakfast at a Connecticut diner—the restaurant known for its giant cow on the roof. It's not our style of decor, but boy, do we love the eggs and coffee! [...]

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For Your Weekend: Let Them Bring You to Jesus

September 7, 2024

Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read Mark 7:31–37
As the mother of five small children, meltdowns are expected. What isn't expected, however, is that I, the mother, the adult, should be having them, but that's what happened yesterday. My family was doing fine as I embarrassingly and humiliatingly melted down over what should have been a joy-filled day. [...]

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For Your Weekend: Wash Your Heart, Not Your Hands

August 31, 2024

Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read Mark 7:18,1415,2123
Whenever Jesus addresses the Pharisees in Scripture, my conscience is pricked, and my heart is stirred. My love for tradition, ritual, and rules can lead me to be overly scrupulous of myself and others, [...]

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For Your Weekend: Leap of Faith

August 24, 2024

Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read John 6:60–69
My fourteen-year-old son is in a really fun phase of adolescence. Please note my sarcasm.
He loves to ask, “Why?” when either my husband or I ask him to do something like finish a chore he already knows he has to do, [...]

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For Your Weekend: We Are the Birds

August 17, 2024

Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read John 6:51–58
A photograph hangs on my office wall. It is a snapshot I was grateful to capture just steps away from my front door: a nest of three baby birds, featherless and fragile, with eyes looking toward heaven and beaks wide open.  [...]

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For Your Weekend: Stop Murmuring

August 10, 2024

Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read John 6:41–51
As I contemplate tomorrow’s gospel passage, I keep being drawn to the word “murmur.” Perhaps it’s because I find myself murmuring, or complaining, more often than I’d like to admit. 
Murmuring—a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone; [...]

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For Your Weekend: What Are You Hungry For?

August 3, 2024

Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read John 6:24–35
Hunger pangs. We’ve all felt them. At one point or another, we’ve all been that girl sitting in the middle of a meeting or a test, embarrassed and red-faced because those loud, obnoxious growling noises aren’t somebody’s pet chihuahua hiding under the table. [...]

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For Your Weekend: When Our Rest Is Interrupted

July 20, 2024

Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read Mark 6:30–34
It’s summer! And so we must be sipping iced tea, having manicured nails in lovely shades of pink, achieving a perfect golden bronze tan. We must also be watching sunsets, anticipating our family vacation to the Cape, eating ice cream while maintaining the ideal figure, [...]

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For Your Weekend: All We Need is Jesus

July 13, 2024

Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read Mark 6:7–13
Chances are I would not have been among the apostles sent on their first missionary trip that we read about in this Sunday’s gospel. And if I had, well, I probably would have taken Jesus aside for a quick follow-up conversation regarding His “know before you go” instructions. [...]

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For Your Weekend: Divine Timing

June 29, 2024

Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read Mark 5:21–43
Silence. Studying. Glancing up at me. More silence. After what felt like an eternity, but was only a few minutes, he finally spoke: “You need surgery.” Relief washed over me, and I couldn’t help but smile and even laugh a little. [...]

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