Here is a link to this week’s readings. Recently, I attended a community theater production of Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Our Town. (It is being performed frequently this year in honor of its 80th anniversary.) In Act II, Mrs. Gibbs...
Here is a link to this week’s readings. “Like sands through the hour glass, so are the days of our lives.” Those of you who follow soap operas will recognize that sentence right away. I have never watched soaps, but even...
Don't forget to Spring Ahead this weekend! Here is a link to this week’s readings. The school shooting in Parkland, Florida left 17 people dead and 14 injured, mostly teenagers. Again, the nation is mourning, and families and friends are devastated. After...
Here is a link to this week’s readings. When the Second Temple was destroyed in 70 A.D., it seemed to the early Christians to confirm the passing of the Old Law and the inauguration of the New, which required no more...
Here is a link to this weekend's readings. As we continue the penitential season of Lent, it is appropriate that we are also celebrating Black History Month. The Church in the United States has yet to effectively proclaim the Gospel in...
Here is a link to this week's readings. This past week, Latin Rite Catholics and many other Christians began their Lenten journey on Ash Wednesday. (Our Eastern Catholic family began Great Lent two days earlier on “Clean Monday,” and our Orthodox...
For all those affected by the school shooting in Florida, this is an excerpt from a prayer written by Rev. Mindi Welton-Mitchell at the time of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School five years ago. Pray with us. ...
Living with Christ offers new prayer apps in English and Spanish Bayard is excited to offer two apps in English and Spanish designed to complement the monthly missalette Living With Christ and help users engage with their faith in an interactive...
Here is a link to this weekend’s readings. I have a friend who is HIV positive. Had he been born ten years earlier, he would probably be dead now. Fortunately, advances in science and medicine—and access to treatment—have allowed him to...
Here is a link to this weekend’s readings. George Bernard Shaw once observed that “Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the airplane, the pessimist the parachute.” We need a bit of both, don’t we? Christians aren’t required...