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The Sign of Peace – part 2

The Sign of Peace – part 2

Sarah Garone, November 2018, originally appearing on the Busted Halo website A few weeks ago, I showed up to Mass with a heavy heart.  Though I try not to follow the news too closely (for the sake of my mental health), I couldn’t help but notice the acrimonious...
Having a bad day

Having a bad day

In today’s first reading, Jeremiah is having a bad day – maybe a bad year. He is at the end of his rope in dealing with the people of Judah and Jerusalem in his role of prophet. Jeremiah was not a flash-in-the-pan prophet who showed up like Jonah in Nineveh and...
Jars of Clay

Jars of Clay

Today’s first reading is one of my favorite passages from St. Paul: “We hold this treasure in earthen vessels” (2 Cor 4:7). It points out one of the great paradoxes of this life of discipleship: it leads to glory, but entails suffering along the way. What is this...
Sharing a Sign of Peace

Sharing a Sign of Peace

It is the year 1935 and Waxahachie, Texas is a small, segregated town amid a depression.  One evening the local sheriff, Royce Spalding, leaves the family dinner table to investigate trouble at the rail yards.  He dies after being accidentally shot by a young black...
The Eternal

The Eternal

Before a baby is born, they are such a wonderful mystery. Though we can get a “peek” at them through ultrasound images, hear their heartbeat with a doppler, and speculate about what they might look like by forming a composite in our imaginations of their mom and dad’s...