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A piece of the mosaic

Today we celebrate the Feast of the Visitation when the Blessed Virgin Mary visited her cousin Elizabeth immediately after the events of the Annunciation when the Angel Gabriel proclaimed the conception of the Christ Child by the power of the Holy Spirit. The Lucan...

Trust, Prayer, and Bearing Fruit

When one hears the story of Jesus and the fig tree in today’s gospel, it has to strike you as one of the strangest in the Gospels. It seems completely out of character for Jesus to curse anything much less a fig tree. When the text goes on to include the detail that...

Now I See

Samantha had just finished college.  The only job she was able to find after graduation was as a nanny to a wealthy and extremely likable family.  It was a great job for a nanny – but not what she envisioned her life to be.  While her friends were going off to law...

Your Baptism

I recently celebrated a birthday. There were plenty of years I did not celebrate it – not because of any reason other than I was not with a group of people for whom it was a memorable date. As best I can remember all the birthdays between high school graduation...