It’s 80 degree weather and the air conditioner just stopped working. All the window screens were previously installed one size too small, so we can’t even open the windows or bugs will come through the gaps. There’s mold in the shower. There may or may not be ants threatening to invade. Expense after expense, […]

This past weekend was a sad one for me because my beloved cat of over 15 years finally had to be put to sleep. The unhappy deed was done and my parents laid her to rest under one of the big old Poplars in our backyard. I couldn’t be there … I didn’t have the […]

  In today’s Gospel reading, Jesus assures his disciples he will not leave them alone, but will give them an Advocate, “the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in my name — he will teach you everything and remind you of all that I told you” (Jn. 14:26).   It seems like the Holy […]

It may already be the fourth week of the Easter season, but it’s still a time for rejoicing! We have been baptized, St. Paul tells us, into the death of Christ, but we have emerged from this baptism into the new life of His resurrection. In other words, we have been reborn through the grace of the Cross as new creatures.

  Lately I’ve been reflecting on  how to keep consistently pursuing holiness while simultaneously cutting myself some slack. This daily striving to be a better version of oneself (especially as a perfectionist) can easily become just another thing we “have” to do, a constant pressure to fight our fallen nature and die to ourselves, or […]