19th Sunday in Ordinary Time Homily

I was delighted to offer the weekly homily for U.S. Catholic for this Sunday. Enjoy the video and full text below.ย  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGBgtrpnIPg&t=1s&utm_source=molleendupreedominguez.home.blog&utm_campaign=ed80fb06a0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_08_10_11_05&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-ed80fb06a0-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D Most of us are quite familiar with the story of the โ€œstill small voiceโ€ - but to know the context of this vignette makes the story all the richer.ย ย  Elijah believes he is …

Eastering Resources

Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com If โ€œeasterโ€ can be a verb, then letโ€™s allow it. Poet Gerard Manley Hopkins famously penned, โ€œLet Christ easter in us, be a day spring to the dimness within us.โ€ I find myself drawn to the subject in this subject-verb agreement. It is not *I* who easters. It is Jesus who easters. …

The muscle I most need to exercise right now

And so I need to exercise my Margin Muscle. I need to get stronger at limiting my in-person commitments outright.ย I need to muscularly resist the temptation to stack my calendar andย regularly look at the whole picture with these questions:

2021 Advent Retreat

I am so pleased to bring you this retreat offering this Advent. I'm working with some friends from the Discerning Deacons project to offer you a time to gather for outstanding preaching, gorgeous music, and a chance to connect with like-minded folks working with justice and peace in the Church and in the world.

Ignatian Family Teach-In for Justice Keynote Address

I am delighted to contribute this keynote address for the high school track, online edition of this year's Ignatian Family Teach-In for Justice. Enjoy this piece that outlines the 2021 theme: Imagining a Path Forward: Reflection, Reckoning, and Kinship. Watch the video here. transcript: Do you remember March 13, 2020?ย  I do. I woke up …

2021 Festival of Mary Magdalene

My graduate school professor made a large impact on me while we were studying the New Testament and I often quote her. She declared, โ€œif Mary of Magdala was not the first witness of the resurrection, there is no possibility it would have been recorded in all four gospels in first century Palestine.โ€ย ย