Memorial of St. Hildegard of Bingen

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Memorial of St. Hildegard of Bingen Today, we invite you to explore the relationship between nature and prayer in the life of St. Hildegard, with the help of Gloria Durka; engage Catholic Social Teaching through ecological justice; a…	17 Sep, 2024	Read More
Twenty-Fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore Jesus’s alternative to empire; engage the idea of ‘losing ourselves’ through the concept of the universal church; and embody solidarity with a contemplative exercise …	15 Sep, 2024	Read More
Twenty-Third Sunday of Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore the necessity of attentiveness to disability in today’s readings, and the disabling nature of war, particularly in the example of Palestine; engage Catholic Social Te…	8 Sep, 2024	Read More
Twenty-Second Sunday of Ordinary Time Today, we invite you to explore our readings’ calls to be doers, and not just hearers of the Word; to engage Catholic Social Teaching’s tenets, and the relationship between the preferential option …	1 Sep, 2024	Read More
Twenty-First Sunday of Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore certain biblical passages as ‘texts of terror’ with the help of feminist theologians; engage the brokenness of the Church and our world with the liberating vision of …	25 Aug, 2024	Read More
Twentieth Sunday of Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore the the eroticism of embodied faith; engage the erotic as a source of strength, despite its demonization in the Church, with the help of Audre Lorde; and embody the e…	18 Aug, 2024	Read More
Nineteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time Today, we invite you to explore the importance of our own nourishment, and the role of uncertainty in justice struggles; engage the demands of communal wellbeing in Catholic Social Teaching; and em…	11 Aug, 2024	Read More
Eighteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time Today, we invite you to explore survival, and the bread of life as the literal feeding of all, not just a spiritualized idea of Jesus; engage Catholic teaching on labor and its connection to commun…	4 Aug, 2024	Read More
Seventeenth Sunday of Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore the feeding of the crowds by understanding the labor that went into creating the food; engage the lessons of labor from Karl Marx to interpret Jesus’s stories; and em…	28 Jul, 2024	Read More
Feast of Saint Mary Magdalene Today amidst “a hot and stressful summer,” we invite you to follow the model of Mary Magdalene, who kept an eye out for unexpected sources of hope and wasn’t afraid to talk about them; engage the p…	22 Jul, 2024	Read More
Sixteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore the quest for solidarity in our communities, amidst division, with the help of today’s readings; engage the call to know our neighbors; and embody robust community wi…	21 Jul, 2024	Read More
Fifteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore change-making in the dominant culture of doing more, with the help of Thomas Merton; engage the call for workers’ rest in Catholic Social Teaching; and embody work an…	14 Jul, 2024	Read More
Fourteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore Ordinary Time through a renewing prophetic imagination, with the help of Walter Brueggemann; engage Catholic Social Teaching’s highest expectations with the help of p…	7 Jul, 2024	Read More
Thirteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore today’s readings as they reflect on the mission of The Just Word Commentary, half-way through; engage the kind of love Catholicism embodies, with a reflection from Be…	30 Jun, 2024	Read More
Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore the power of water in our readings, and the interconnection between exploitation of the earth and the exploitation of women and the oppressed; engage Pope Francis’s L…	23 Jun, 2024	Read More
Eleventh Sunday of Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore the parables of the sower and the mustard seed through an ecoliberationist lens; engage the history of English religious reformers who reclaimed common land for the p…	16 Jun, 2024	Read More
Tenth Sunday of Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore how the readings depict who/what God is; engage messages from liberation theology and Binding the Strong Man depicting God as the poor; and embody God-as-poor with a …	9 Jun, 2024	Read More
Corpus Christi Today we invite you to explore community and retreat with the help of the theology of divinization; engage Catholic Social Teaching on war and peace; and embody these examples with the help of a he…	2 Jun, 2024	Read More
Trinity Sunday Today we invite you to explore the Spirit “written upon our hearts” with the help of Fr. Richard Rohr and a mature spirituality; engage lessons from the Church’s transition to Vatican II, and its m…	26 May, 2024	Read More
Feast of Pentecost Today we invite you to explore the Holy Spirit through fire and water, with the help of Rachel Held Evans; engage Spirit for Catholics through our teachings; and embody the Holy Spirit with the hel…	19 May, 2024	Read More
Solemnity of the Ascension Today we invite you to explore ‘making a way out of no way’ with the help of womanist theologians; engage the Jewish tradition of Passover, and its examples of hope and liberation that Christians c…	12 May, 2024	Read More
Sixth Sunday of Easter Today, we invite you to explore God’s openness to all, through a Queer lens; engage Catholic teaching on the family, and reimagine the meaning of family through Queer and feminist lenses; and embod…	5 May, 2024	Read More
Feast of Saint Joseph the Worker Today we invite you to explore the sacredness of labor through the Hebrew Bible, and the political nature of work and rest; engage the Feast of St. Joseph the Worker through the lessons of Interna…	1 May, 2024	Read More
Fifth Sunday of Easter Today we invite you to explore the role of carceral violence in repression, through Jesus’s disciples in the Acts of the Apostles; engage the reality of the carceral state through the U.S. Bishops’…	28 Apr, 2024	Read More
Fourth Sunday of Easter Today we invite you to explore the reality of ecological martyrdom, on this Earth Day; engage the Christian lineage of ecomartyrs with the help of Saint Óscar Romero and the Latin American bishops …	21 Apr, 2024	Read More
Third Sunday of Easter Today we invite you to explore condemnation and moral authority in the scriptures; return to the gospels as good news, with the help of Fr. Dan Berrigan; and embody liberation instead of dread in t…	14 Apr, 2024	Read More
Second Sunday of Easter Today we invite you to explore communality and redistribution of resources as shown in the gospels; engage solidarity with the poor as a sacramental action; and embody this necessity to a deep soli…	7 Apr, 2024	Read More
Easter Sunday Today we invite you to explore embodiment – Jesus’s and our own – with the help of queer theologians; engage the possibility of reconciliation as an act of self-respect, instead of one of sin absol…	31 Mar, 2024	Read More
Good Friday Today we invite you to explore the Black, liberatory theology of James Cone; engage Cone’s condemnation of the continued lynching of Black people, with The Cross and the Lynching Tree; and embody w…	29 Mar, 2024	Read More
Holy Thursday Today we invite you to explore a reimagined relationship between the minister and one who receives ministry, with liberation theologian Leonardo Boff; engage your call to ministry with the help of …	28 Mar, 2024	Read More
Palm Sunday Today, we invite you to explore Jesus as a grassroots organizer against empire; engage Catholic Social Teaching through solidarity; and savor God’s abundance to organize for the world we know is po…	24 Mar, 2024	Read More
Fifth Sunday of Lent Today we invite you to explore the anti-empire messages in the Gospel of John; engage the message of solidarity in Catholic Social Teaching and in the Gospels; and embody solidarity against empire …	17 Mar, 2024	Read More
Fourth Sunday of Lent Today we invite you to explore the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and “costly grace”; engage resistance to the Nazi regime in Catholic Social Teaching; and embody resistance in the model of Jesu…	10 Mar, 2024	Read More
Third Sunday of Lent Today we invite you to explore Jesus driving out the money changers and the sellers in the temple; engage Catholic Social Teaching through the lessons of Catholic resistors; and embody these lesson…	3 Mar, 2024	Read More
Second Sunday of Lent Today, we invite you to explore Paul as an organizer against empire; engage Catholic Social Teaching through base communities and liberation theology; and embody anti-empire organizing with the hel…	25 Feb, 2024	Read More
First Sunday of Lent Today we invite you to explore God’s commitment to land and human dignity through the Haitian Revolution against colonization; engage our own Catholic Social teaching themes, made deeper through an…	18 Feb, 2024	Read More
Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore healing in the Bible and through decolonization with the help of Frantz Fanon; engage the Catholic Church’s use of abuse and colonization; and embody healing and deco…	11 Feb, 2024	Read More
Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore Job’s suffering and the healing story in Mark through the lens of disability theology; engage Catholic thought on the human Christ, and the reality of ableism in our …	4 Feb, 2024	Read More
Feast of St. Brigid of Kildare Today we invite you to explore Brigid, the woman, saint, and goddess of Kildare, Ireland, and her messages of care for the poor and peace; engage Brigid’s role as connector to the earth and to a de…	1 Feb, 2024	Read More
Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore demons and demonization in the Bible, through the book of Mark and the Messianic Secret; engage with tools for justice in Catholic Social Teaching; and embody justice…	28 Jan, 2024	Read More
Third Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year B Today we invite you to explore the apostle Paul’s warnings about time, and consider our relationship now to limited time; engage Pope Francis’s Laudate deum and the questions of time, climate emerg…	21 Jan, 2024	Read More
Second Sunday in Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore the phrase “Here I Am” with the help of Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas; engage the Catholic Social Teaching principle of subsidiary, and its implications for har…	14 Jan, 2024	Read More
Feast of the Epiphany Today we invite you to explore Herod’s reaction to the announcement of a newborn king, and Hebrew Bible prophecies, with the help of Quaker Palestinian activist Jean Zaru; engage how Catholic Socia…	7 Jan, 2024	Read More
Solemnity of Mary Mother of God Today, we invite you to explore “living in the likeness of Mary” through attentiveness to our ancestral and collective suffering; engage Catholic traditions of hermitage and contemplation to aid ou…	1 Jan, 2024	Read More
Christmas Mass During the Night Today we invite you to explore the incarnation of God in Jesus, and the relatedness of hope and despair, dark and light; engage Catholic Social Teaching’s call to solidarity, as this call features …	25 Dec, 2023	Read More
Fourth Sunday of Advent Today we invite you to explore the possibility of the illegitimate conception of Jesus, with the help of Catholic biblical scholar Jane Schaberg; engage the (lack of) traditional Catholic Social Te…	24 Dec, 2023	Read More
Third Sunday of Advent Today, Alex Moore explores the necessity of nonhuman life for human life, with the help of Kenyan environmental activist Wangari Maathai; engages Catholic Social Teaching in its use of water for ri…	17 Dec, 2023	Read More
Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe Today we invite you to explore Our Lady of Guadalupe through the eyes of a Palestinian woman, and with the help of Palestinian Christian Mitri Raheb and theologian Ada María Isasi-Díaz; engage the …	12 Dec, 2023	Read More
Second Sunday of Advent Today we invite you to explore the dying unto ourselves of Advent, with the help of Dietrich Bonhoeffer; engage Catholic Social Teaching on baptism and against the destruction of the earth; and emb…	10 Dec, 2023	Read More
Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception Today we invite you to critically explore the caricatures of Eve and Mary in patriarchal Christianity, with the help of scholar Patricia Lynn Reilly; engage Catholic Social Teaching through contemp…	8 Dec, 2023	Read More
First Sunday of Advent Today we invite you to explore the beginning of Advent with an analysis of the apocalyptic time that Jesus invokes, and what it has to do with the social order; engage Catholic Social Teaching thro…	3 Dec, 2023	Read More
Solemnity of Christ the King Today, we invite you to explore the Solemnity of Christ the King by examining the motives behind its establishment, with the help of an empire-critical analysis; compare Catholic Social Teaching an…	26 Nov, 2023	Read More
Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore the Parable of the Talents, understood from the third servant’s perspective; engage Catholic Social Teaching on rights and responsibilities; and embody bringing our p…	19 Nov, 2023	Read More
Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time Today, we invite you to explore life on earth and after death through Black spirituals; engage Catholic Social Teaching on disposability and end of life care; and contemplate how love, relationship…	12 Nov, 2023	Read More
Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore the ancient Jewish group, the Pharisees, and Jesus’s condemnation of Pharisees contextualized as in-group disagreements among Jewish people; and engage the anti-Semit…	5 Nov, 2023	Read More
Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time Today, we invite you to explore loving our neighbors with the help of Simone Weil; engage Catholic Social Teaching through the U.S. Bishops’ pastoral letter Strangers no Longer; and embody the othe…	29 Oct, 2023	Read More
Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore Jesus’s words to “give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar,” with the help of philosopher Jacques Ellul; engage Catholic Social Teaching with the U.S. Bishops’ pastoral …	22 Oct, 2023	Read More
Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time Today, we invite you to explore Psalm 23 through the music of the American Civil Rights movement, with Duke Ellington, Mahalia Jackson, and Marian Anderson.	15 Oct, 2023	Read More
Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Today, we unite in the spirit of solidarity and righteous anger against the injustices of capitalism and imperialism. Let our reflection and action through Catholic tradition and Catholic Social Te…	8 Oct, 2023	Read More
Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Today, we invite you to explore forgiveness and sacramentality, and practical embodiment with the help of M. Shawn Copeland and Enfleshing Freedom; embody Catholic Social Teaching’s emphasis on sac…	1 Oct, 2023	Read More
Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore the world behind Jesus’s parable in Matthew with the help of historical theologian Richard Horsley; engage with Catholic Social Teaching’s legacy of labor justice and…	24 Sep, 2023	Read More
Feast of Hildegard von Bingen Today, we invite you to explore Hildegard von Bingen’s life, experienced with chronic pain, with the help of disability theology; embody Catholic Social Teaching’s focus on dignity, participation, …	17 Sep, 2023	Read More
Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Today, we invite you to explore the mystery of forgiveness with the help of philosopher Hannah Arendt; engage the centrality of mercy in Catholic Social Teaching and its relation to justice and for…	17 Sep, 2023	Read More
Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time Today, we invite you to explore displacement and suffering in the Bible and in our times with the help of theologian Catherine Keller; engage Catholic Social Teaching’s emphasis on family, communit…	10 Sep, 2023	Read More
Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary time Today, we invite you to explore the experiences of the prophets through Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel’s examination of Jeremiah; engage Catholic Social Teaching’s fraught relationship with self-care…	3 Sep, 2023	Read More
Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time Today, we invite you to explore the preferential option for the poor with the help of theologian Orlando Espín, and the meaning of Peter as “the rock”; engage Catholic Social Teaching through the o…	27 Aug, 2023	Read More
Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time Today, we invite you to explore the story of Jesus and the Canaanite woman with the help of feminist theologian Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza and the kingdom of God on earth; engage Catholic Social …	20 Aug, 2023	Read More
Solemnity of the Assumption of Mary Today, we invite you to explore Mary, the Magnificat, and the Church’s use of Mary to oppress women; engage Catholic Social Teaching’s helpful and unhelpful views on women’s roles; and embody mothe…	15 Aug, 2023	Read More
Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Today, we invite you to explore types of rupture with the help of Activist Theology; engage sacred rupture, and how Catholic Social Teaching can help us with this task; and embody questions of sacr…	13 Aug, 2023	Read More
Feast of the Transfiguration Today, we invite you to explore transformation and transfiguration through theological reflection on transgender experiences; engage and combat Catholic Social Teaching that is harmful to trans peo…	6 Aug, 2023	Read More
Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Please note: In 2023, The Feast of the Transfiguration, takes precedence over the 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time, which is not celebrated this year. Today, we invite you to explore Jesus’s healings …	6 Aug, 2023	Read More
Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Today, we invite you to explore the sacred throughout our world with the help of Pop Art artist and longtime nun Corita Kent; engage Catholic Social Teaching with Pope Francis’s Evangelii gaudium a…	30 Jul, 2023	Read More
Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Today, we invite you to explore Jesus’s yeast metaphor for describing the kindom of God with the help of French theologian Marie-Dominique Chenu; engage the worker-focused vision of Catholic Social…	23 Jul, 2023	Read More
Feast of Saint Mary Magdalene Today, we invite you to explore who Mary Magdalene was with the help of feminist scholar Elizabeth Johnson; engage official Church teachings, both inaccurate and accurate, about Mary Magdalene; and…	22 Jul, 2023	Read More
Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Today, we invite you to explore our call to be stewards of creation with the help of Peter Maurin’s Catholic Worker “Agronomic Universities”; engage integral ecology and sustainability through Cath…	16 Jul, 2023	Read More
Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Today, we invite you to explore children’s wisdom, and how slavery and racism have so deeply damaged the United States, with the help of Wendell Berry; engage the concept of synodality in the Catho…	9 Jul, 2023	Read More
Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Today, we invite you to explore the crucified people of the world with the help of Ignacio Ellacuría, S.J.; engage the centrality of concern for the poor, solidarity, and work for liberation in Ca…	2 Jul, 2023	Read More
Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time Today, we invite you to explore the centrality of economic justice and flourishing in Catholic thought and ethics; engage the responsibility of economic justice with the help of Pope Francis’s ency…	25 Jun, 2023	Read More
Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Today, we invite you to explore disability, healing, and cure in the Jesus narratives with the help of scholar Kathy Black; engage Catholic Social Teaching, Dignity of the Human Person, disability …	18 Jun, 2023	Read More
Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ Today, we invite you to explore how Catholic nuns are connecting eucharistic theology with ecological eating; engage with Pope Francis and Patriarch Bartholomew, the “Green Patriarch” of the Easter…	11 Jun, 2023	Read More
Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity Today, we invite you to explore the idol worship of white supremacy in the United States with the help of William Stringfellow; engage Catholic social thought from below with the help of leftist an…	4 Jun, 2023	Read More
Pentecost Today, we invite you to explore the descent of the Holy Spirit to communities fighting oppression, through the Pentecost connections to the Detroit Uprising, and the People’s Tribunal at the Shrine…	28 May, 2023	Read More
Solemnity of the Ascension Today, we invite you to explore the Feast of the Ascension while examining the theologian and Jesuit priest Ignacio Ellacuría’s understanding and commitment to reality and our engagement with it; e…	21 May, 2023	Read More
Sixth Sunday of Easter Today, we invite you to explore the Holy Spirit that stretches through time, as we approach Pentecost, with the help of womanist theologian Monica Coleman; engage the Holy Spirit through Catholic S…	14 May, 2023	Read More
Fifth Sunday of Easter Today, we invite you to explore the “Last Supper Discourse,” and the fate awaiting Jesus’s disciples, with the help of liberation theologian Gustavo Gutiérrez; engage Catholic Social Teaching throu…	7 May, 2023	Read More
Fourth Sunday of Easter Today, we invite you to explore the Acts of the Apostles, and Peter’s reflection on the separation between God’s creation and humanity, with the help of liberation theologian Gustavo Gutiérrez; eng…	30 Apr, 2023	Read More
Third Sunday of Easter Today, we invite you to explore women’s role in Jesus’s revelation, and its connections to women’s ordination; engage Pope Francis’s thoughts on the role of discernment in Catholic Social Teaching;…	23 Apr, 2023	Read More
Second Sunday of Easter Today, we invite you to explore the disciples’ (and our) hiding behind locked doors, and communal theology and activism; engage Catholic Social Teaching on active theology with Pope Francis’s messa…	16 Apr, 2023	Read More
Easter Sunday Today, we invite you to explore women at the forefront of human history, and the Easter story with the help of Asian feminist theologian Kwok Pui-lan; engage the importance of solidarity in Catholi…	9 Apr, 2023	Read More
Easter Vigil Today, we invite you to explore the hope of new life in the face of death-dealing racism with the help of Kelly Brown Douglas; engage the Catholic Church’s concept of human dignity as a challenge t…	8 Apr, 2023	Read More
Easter Vigil Today we invite you to explore Jesus’s death through our own grief and loss; engage death as life through the Roger LaPorte and Daniel Berrigan; and embody the idea that “death does not have the la…	8 Apr, 2023	Read More
Good Friday Today, we invite you to explore Jesus Christ’s death by way of James Cone’s prophetic meditation on the cross and the lynching tree; engage with the successes and limitations of the American bishop…	7 Apr, 2023	Read More
Holy Thursday Today, we invite you to explore the Gospel story of Jesus washing the disciples’ feet, with biblical ethicist William Spohn; engage with ideas of labor justice by considering the devaluation of lab…	6 Apr, 2023	Read More
Palm Sunday Today, we invite you to explore the complex qualities of the Passion narrative, with the help of our author, and Jesuit mystic Pierre Teilhard de Chardin; engage Christ’s way of love in Catholic So…	2 Apr, 2023	Read More
Fifth Sunday of Lent Today, we invite you to explore dialogue between Lakota worldviews and Catholicism, through Heȟáka Sápa, or Black Elk; engage Catholic Social Teaching on care for the Earth, and consider the Earth …	26 Mar, 2023	Read More
Solemnity of the Annunciation Today, we invite you to explore historical details that bring us closer to understanding Mary as a real human being, with the help of feminist theologian Elizabeth Johnson; engage how Catholic Soci…	25 Mar, 2023	Read More
Fourth Sunday of Lent Today, we invite you to explore the painful context of the Gospel of John’s depiction of Jews and Judaism through the insights of the Jewish New Testament scholar, Adele Reinhartz; engage the chang…	19 Mar, 2023	Read More
Third Sunday of Lent Today we invite you to explore Jesus’s encounter with the Samaritan woman at the well through theologian Elizabeth Johnson’s feminist approach; engage the importance of dialogue for both lay people…	12 Mar, 2023	Read More
Second Sunday of Lent Today, with the help of Saint Augustine, we invite you to explore God’s call to awaken and find God’s transfiguring power in ourselves; engage Catholic social teaching in Gustavo Gutiérrez’s messag…	5 Mar, 2023	Read More
First Sunday of Lent Today we invite you to explore how James Baldwin interprets God’s covenant with Noah; engage with the U.S. bishops’ letter on racism, and its shortcomings; and embody the difficult racial honesty t…	27 Feb, 2023	Read More
Ash Wednesday Today we invite you to explore, with liberation theologian Gustavo Gutiérrez, the radical Lenten calling to prepare for God by becoming real neighbors to one another; to engage the concepts of Cath…	22 Feb, 2023	Read More
Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore Jesus’s culturally and historically specific “folk wisdoms,” and the theology of Jon Sobrino; engage Pope Francis’s writing on community and solidarity in Fratelli tu…	19 Feb, 2023	Read More
Ash Wednesday Today we invite you to explore Ash Wednesday through either the retributive or the restorative God; engage Catholic teaching on queer people through the Vatican document that discusses “blessing sa…	14 Feb, 2023	Read More
Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore Jesus’s parables as a way to raise consciousness among the poor; engage the Catholic Church’s stated tenets of Catholic social teaching, and their undeniable message …	12 Feb, 2023	Read More
Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time We invite you to reflect on our reading from Isaiah through Saint Oscar Romero’s vision that the Church choose to serve the world of the poor; engage with the concept of the “preferential option fo…	5 Feb, 2023	Read More
Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time In today’s offering, we will explore how scripture can inspire an “integral ecology” that brings together environmentalism with social justice, especially through the Beatitudes; we will engage Pop…	29 Jan, 2023	Read More
Third Sunday in Ordinary Time Today, we invite you to consider themes of light, truth, and justice through the theology of Eleazar Fernandez; protest as a method for seeking justice as acknowledged in Catholic social teaching; …	22 Jan, 2023	Read More
Second Sunday in Ordinary Time Today, through one person’s encounter with theologian Ada María Isasi-Díaz, we invite you to reflect on the individual and communal dimensions of our vocations given to us in baptism. In Catholic s…	15 Jan, 2023	Read More
Epiphany Sunday To recognize that different religious traditions offer distinctive insights into the nature of Ultimate Reality. Today we invite you to explore the magi’s discernment of the Spirit as outside of ou…	8 Jan, 2023	Read More
Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God To reverence Mary as a person with agency: Today we invite you to explore Mary as Theotokos–God-Bearer; engage with our communal struggle for a brand new day in our church; and embody the suffering…	1 Jan, 2023	Read More
Christmas Mass During the Day To have an ecological conversion: Today we invite you to explore the ecological implications of Christmas using Elizabeth’s Johnson’s perspective of the incarnation; engage with Pope Francis’ call …	25 Dec, 2022	Read More
Fourth Sunday of Advent To reimagine lineage: Today we invite you to explore lineage with Patricia Datchuck Sánchez; engage with Thomas Berry’s Principles of the Universe; and embody the belief that Earth is our common ho…	18 Dec, 2022	Read More
Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe To grapple with multiple narratives: Today we invite you to explore how one person’s encounter with Gudalupe has been and continues to be transformative; engage with Guadalupe’s historic and curren…	12 Dec, 2022	Read More
Third Sunday of Advent To prophetic imagination: Today we invite you to explore how God’s creation teaches us about God’s kindom of peace and justice, to engage the “see-judge-act method” in the Catholic social tradition…	11 Dec, 2022	Read More
Second Sunday of Advent To celebrate the LGBTQI community: Today we invite you to explore a reorientation to the Church’s teaching on queerness from Jesus’ cross to Jesus’ birth through the work of Paul G. Crowley SJ; eng…	4 Dec, 2022	Read More
First Sunday of Advent Year A To disarm: Today we invite you to explore Isaiah’s vision of disarmament; engage with Pope Francis’ firm condemnation of possessing nuclear weapons; and embody the creative enactment of turning swo…	27 Nov, 2022	Read More