Naming Grace

View this week’s Scripture readings at: http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/ She had never met the little girl who lived on the next block,

http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/122318.cfm “Hurry Janet, I think I’m in labor.” Janet dropped everything and sped to Jessica’s home. Entering the house, she

http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/120918.cfm Israel, expecting its return to Jerusalem, perches on the edge of glory. Mary, awaiting the birth of her baby,

http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/112518.cfm “End stage,” he said. My heart sank; “Really? So, this is the beginning of the end.” The end of

http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/111118.cfm One night, during the last month of my sixth pregnancy, I trudged up our stairs for bed — one

View this week’s Scripture readings at: http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/-101418.cfm Days shortening. Skies darkening. Time slipping. Like sand through the hourglass. How to

http://usccb.org/bible/readings/093018.cfm At his mother’s funeral Mass, Father John Riccardo of Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church in Plymouth, Michigan,

http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/091618.cfm What did Pope Francis know about Theodore McCarrick’s abuse of minors? Did the pope take part in a cover-up?

http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/-081218.cfm The POD (portable moving container) pulled up, ready to be emptied. We excitedly unlocked chains and swung doors open.