Oh! Sup! I’m a teacher now. Here’s what I’m doing for Lent this year! Spend time with Barnett Newman’s Stations of the Cross. Don’t be mean. Especially not flippantly. I love to be flippantly mean! No buying pointless sweets. No candy just to have candy. Wedding cake, a social ice cream, great! But I don’t… Continue reading lent 2018
Category: spirituality
a love story
Over the last three and a half years in DC, I’ve lived what feels like many lives. I’ve been disillusioned and sad. I’ve been hopeful and hungry. I’ve been broken and lost. I’ve been whole and happy. But as I leave this city — hurriedly and unexpectedly, I am deeply grateful. I’ve grown up here,… Continue reading a love story
At Millennial Journal: A Spotlight on Abuse: Healing the Wounds of the World through Truth, Justice, and Solidarity
I went to see Spotlight a few weeks ago and had some Big Thoughts about it: To embrace the Eucharist fully, we must also embrace justice and mercy. Apologies don’t fade the pain of the victims of abuse or their families, and the rifts within the Church and our communities don’t close by simply acknowledging… Continue reading At Millennial Journal: A Spotlight on Abuse: Healing the Wounds of the World through Truth, Justice, and Solidarity
#caritaslent
I keep meaning to write a comprehensive preview of my plans for Lent 2016, like I did last year. Instead I keep… not doing that. I might pull that together before Ash Wednesday, but I might also not. But this year, Elise and I did record an episode of Caritas ALL about Lent. You can take… Continue reading #caritaslent
recommended reading
Welcome to the Year of Mercy. I have a few things on my mind that can be tangentially related to the aforementioned jubilee. We need to take better care of each other. I’m Afraid of Americans – Claire Zulkey I’m scared about how we repeatedly let ourselves get caught up in time-wasting semantics about whether… Continue reading recommended reading
depressed but not despairing
Going to be straight up honest here today: I’m struggling with clinical depression. Also warning: this is about prayer. If you know me in my off-line life, this probably is no surprise — in the last week I have received a message with a self-care worksheet from my mom, a text from a wonderful friend that she is… Continue reading depressed but not despairing
pontifex eve
I’ll have more to say on this topic later this week, but I just wanted to share a bit about why I am thrilled to be greeting Pope Francis at Andrews Air Force Base tomorrow afternoon. In 2005, I was a young high school student on spring break with my family in San Diego. I… Continue reading pontifex eve
a meditation on insignificance
We live in such a small time. Who is to say what parts of our current history will look like a flash in the pan? A two hundred year power is the kind of thing they hardly bother teaching to you. A century ago we were only just awaking to news of the Great War.… Continue reading a meditation on insignificance
grasping for ghosts
Last July was a time in my life when I woke up early on the weekend, ready to hop out of bed and do chores and accomplish things. Have a clean apartment and be exciting. I had lots of activities and visitors and visits to make. I’m not so interested in that this July. Over… Continue reading grasping for ghosts
poetry dose | two
I struggled to choose lines to pull from this Rilke poem. The voice of God, calling us into life, sending us into the world with all that entails. I spent the weekend at the Hearts on Fire retreat that the Apostleship of Prayer and Jesuits have for young adults. It was really lovely. Appropriately the… Continue reading poetry dose | two
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