The Crux Move This Lent
I love to go rock climbing. And living in the Mid-Atlantic region, I am blessed to live only a few hours away from one of the greatest rock climbing areas in the world, the Shawangunks in Gardiner, New York. There…
A prayer for taking every thought captive
Oh Lord, through the words of St. Paul, You instruct us not to blindly believe every thought that pops into our minds, but to "take every thought captive to obey Christ.” Please show me how to do this in my…
A Season of Self-Forgetting
Cheese. It’s my weakness. My Kryptonite. My Achilles heel. Two years ago, I decided to give it up for Lent. Abstaining is supposed to be difficult, right? I told people of my goal, mostly so I’d go through with it…
A prayer for when I feel like I am not enough
Holy Spirit, come be with me, come with Your truth, with Your love, with Your overflowing abundance. Lord, I have believed the lie that I am not enough and I remind myself of it often. I feel I am not…
The Journey to Calvary: prayerfully considering the baggage we carry along
I love to think of our faith journey as a personal pilgrimage we each take with Jesus. In the Gospel this past Sunday we journeyed with Jesus up to the top of a high mountain and beheld the Transfiguration along…
Hearts, Ashes, & The Cross
I think it is so fitting that Valentine's Day falls on Ash Wednesday this year. While the restaurants in town have been carefully crafting specialty seafood dishes for their Catholic patrons to enjoy on Wednesday (a day of fasting and…