How Deep is Your Dirt?

It’s summer and baseball season and that brings to mind a metaphor that we could apply to a lot of things. In this case I think it can be used to bring home a point about our faith: “Catholicism is…

How Comfy is Your Box?

One of the early things that I learned in “Theology School” was the way that God works. Do I have all of the answers, no, but I know what the plan looks like. It reminds me of a 70’s TV…

Never to be Seen

Are you a gardener?  Did you ever plant a seed? Did you ever wonder about the “Seen Parable” (Lk 8: 4-15) and try to figure out which one you were and become depressed because you thought that the description which…

Sins of Omission

You’ve heard the phrase in the title. I bet you have even formed a little catalog in your head of what is included. There are probably things in your list that include a lot of “forgetting”. You know: I forgot…

Who’s in Charge of Me?

As Catholics, many of our faith have learned the rules at the knee of a teacher, parent, or grandparent without ever having a disagreement, difference of opinion or question of anything. To be sure, there is an encyclopedia of information…

Diet

We have survived Easter and the fifty days. We ease back into the routine of life and the down time of summer, school’s out.  The liturgical year slips into its benign period and for a while anyway spiritual demands are not…

Provoked

It’s been a while now, actually a lot of years.  I have been “casting my eyes” on the daily readings of the Church for about forty years or so.  Because of that I have been encouraged to do things, empowered…

Called Out

This Lent our parish theme was: “After meeting Jesus what will you do?”  In that tiny sentence is a question that could probably take a lifetime to answer.  By the fifth Sunday of Lent, however, this question was poking at…

Into the Darkness!

Gifts, we have gifts, we ALL have gifts.  I bet you have heard that one and might have said to yourself: “I haven’t got a single gift.”  I speculate that we have all done or said that at least once…

Three Questions for Lent and Beyond

Popular Catholic speaker Matthew Kelly often begins his presentations with this phrase: “There’s genius in Catholicism.”   That couldn’t be truer. There are so many things about the Church that make perfect sense and one of them is the calendar.  The…

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2018/03/07 By

Kathryn Cunningham

Kathryn Cunningham, a contributor to this blog, went to her eternal rest in February. Kathryn began writing here in 2012. I always looked forward to her posts and her wry comments in our email exchanges. Jennifer Willits, the site’s founder,…

2016/11/02 By

You Saint You

In November our Church calls us to remember the remarkable of the Church both recognized (All Saints) and those unrecognized (All Souls). We set up memorial tables, reverence the book of the dead and attend memorial Masses. All the while…

2014/09/23 By

Breath

I’ve been retired a while now and have been moved to the place where I am constantly reading and seeking all of the “natural” points of view about health.  If you have done some looking at anything that hints of Oriental…

2013/10/22 By

Living Beyond the “I”

As a retired person I have the opportunity to listen to a lot of talk radio.  I have abandoned the public display of human misery that appears with regularity on daytime TV; it gives me a headache!  There is one…

2012/07/24 By

Second Chances and Freedom

Editor’s note: Today we welcome Kathryn Cunningham to the New Evangelizers blogging team! The gift of freedom is the one identifiable privilege all Americans share, despite other differences. Here in the USA we can say, do, and think what we want, within…

2017/12/06 By

Just Like Sheep

A few days ago we celebrated the feast of Christ the King. In the Church year this is always the marker of ending and the time to begin the preparation for the new Liturgical Year, Advent. This Feast, for me…

2017/11/01 By

You Saint You!

In November our Church calls us to remember the remarkable of the Church both recognized (All Saints) and those unrecognized (All Souls). We set up memorial tables, reverence the book of the dead and attend memorial Masses. All the while…

2017/10/05 By

Waiting for Perfection

“Oh Lord I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof, but only say the word and my soul shall be healed.” If you are Catholic and you don’t recognize the previous words, to say the least, you…

2017/09/20 By

For Ever and Ever

I am sometimes shocked when I hear people say things like “I want to live forever!” The ones who have that to say are usually young, have no ailments and no real stresses in their life. But “forever”, wow! Times…

2017/09/06 By

What R U Lookin’ At?

In the lessons surrounding John the Baptist there are many things that get our immediate attention as well as some things that don’t but should! Let’s fill in the details a bit about John and his ministry. First of all,…