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When resolutions falter

By Elizabeth Foss
By now, many New Year’s resolutions are wobbling — or have quietly been abandoned altogether. You can find a parking space at the gym. You can’t find the planner you promised to consult and annotate daily.
1/15/26
Reading Time 2 min

‘Hopeful New Year’

By Lucia A. Silecchia
On the Feast of the Epiphany, the 2025 Jubilee Year came to a close as the Holy Doors in Rome were sealed once again. I am sorry to see the Jubilee Year come to an end. I did not visit Rome this year. I did not attend any special jubilee events.
1/15/26
Reading Time 3 min

Stovetop spirituality: the kitchen as chapel

By Christina Capecchi
The older I get, the more I crave a practical spirituality — one tied to dirty dishes not pristine libraries, one that recognizes hungry bellies along with hungry hearts.
1/15/26
Reading Time 3 min

The Herald’s quiet strength

By Soren Johnson
In my local Jiffy Lube waiting room the other day, I felt my irritability index rising as the infomercials and reality-TV shows blared in the background … a futile attempt at drowning out the sound of hydraulic lifts and impact wrenches pulsing from the garage.
1/15/26
Reading Time 3 min

A home for my words

By Elizabeth Foss
I am the type of reader who — before ubiquitous cell phones — read everything in front of me, from cereal boxes to every word of the newspaper.
1/15/26
Reading Time 4 min

Baptism of the Lord

By Fr. Steven Oetjen
When Jesus came to John to be baptized, Matthew tells us, “John tried to prevent him, saying, ‘I need to be baptized by you, and yet you are coming to me?’ ” John’s hesitance makes perfect sense.
1/10/26
Reading Time 3 min

Solemnity of the Epiphany

By Fr. Jack Peterson, YA
Jan. 4 — Mt 2:1-12 The Solemnity of the Epiphany affords Christians the opportunity to continue our celebration of the Christmas season.
1/3/26
Reading Time 3 min

You’re the adult

By Fr. Richard Miserendino
Faced with perhaps a first big emergency as adults, most of us have had this thought process: “Trouble! Call the adults!” Then an unsettling realization: “Oh no. I’m the grown-up here.”
12/27/25
Reading Time 3 min

Fourth Sunday of Advent

By Fr. Joseph M. Rampino
With the great feast of Christmas only a few days away, and the narrative of Luke's Gospel, complete with the angels, shepherds, and the Bethlehem manger awaiting us, the church turns for a moment to consider the story and role of St. Joseph.
12/20/25
Reading Time 3 min

Weeks of Advent

By Elizabeth Foss
Gaudete Sunday always startles me a little. Liturgically, we are still in the “preparation” weeks of Advent — still waiting, still watching, still carrying what has not yet been resolved — and suddenly the church tells us to rejoice.
12/18/25
Reading Time 3 min

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