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Celebrating 250 Years

By Lucia A. Silecchia
As July 4th rapidly approaches, the 2026 celebrations take on a special significance as they mark the nation’s “semiquincentennial” year: a quarter of a millennium since the Declaration of Independence declared that “these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent.”
6/18/26
Reading Time 4 min

The theology of presence

By Andrea Picciotti-Bayer
Last summer at our parish Corpus Christi picnic, I spotted my 11-year-old daughter sitting on the grass, entertaining toddlers who belonged to a young couple we barely knew.
6/17/26
Reading Time 4 min

Why not you?

By Fr. Richard Miserendino
One sympathizes with Jesus in our Gospel today, looking out upon the crowds of the world and seeing them troubled and abandoned, like sheep without a shepherd. All it takes is a glance at the morning or evening news to realize that our world still needs Christ and his appointed shepherds, perhaps now more than ever.
6/13/26
Reading Time 4 min

On your honor

By Christina Capecchi
It’s Wednesday morning on Lower Grey Cloud Island, a wooded retreat tucked 15 miles down the Mississippi River from St. Paul, Minn. The world feels lush and fertile, birdsong rising through a canopy of maples.
6/12/26
Reading Time 3 min

Pondering the last summer

By Elizabeth Foss
She smiles as she enters the pew on the opposite end from where I’m sitting. Three little boys, all in a row, file in after her and before her husband.
6/12/26
Reading Time 3 min

Sacred Heart of Jesus

By Msgr. Charles M. Mangan
Hearing the good news that the Catholic bishops of the United States, acknowledging the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, consecrated our country to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, we can only rejoice that Christ allows us another opportunity to thank him, beg his continued assistance and give ourselves entirely to him.
6/11/26
Reading Time 3 min

Corpus Christi

By Fr. Joseph M. Rampino
The feast of Corpus Christi brings with it an incredible variety of expressions of belief in and love for Christ truly present in the Holy Eucharist.
6/6/26
Reading Time 3 min

Made for communion

By Fr. Steven Oetjen
“It is not good for the man to be alone,” God said of Adam in the garden, before the creation of Eve (Gen 2:18). But it is fair to ask, “Why was it not good?” After all, everything God created up to that point was called “good.”
5/30/26
Reading Time 3 min

Found time

By Lucia A. Silecchia
Certainly, AI has been a subtle, largely unnoticed part of our lives for a long time. But, in 2023, when the viral launch of the seductively user-friendly ChatGPT brought AI into our homes, schools and offices, we were forced to confront the far more profound impacts of AI, of which ChatGPT plays only a minor part.
5/29/26
Reading Time 3 min

We belong to each other

By Elizabeth Foss
Most marriages reach a point where love ceases to feel primarily romantic and becomes sacramental in an entirely new way.
5/29/26
Reading Time 3 min

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