Daily Meditation for November 13, 2025
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do / With your one wild and precious life?” asks poet Mary Oliver. We are in the winding-down season of the year. […]
Entries by Amanda Hackett
Daily Meditation for November 12, 2025
How one sees God matters. Think back to your childhood. Was God an old man with a long, white beard? Was he jovial and good-natured or angry and displeased? Did […]
Daily Meditation for November 11, 2025
Perhaps we were first taught the concept of Grace and its meaning when we were children, possibly through the Baltimore Catechism or some religion class instruction. But the concept still […]
Neighborhood Genealogy
After 70 years, I discovered I had lived in the Communion of Saints within a triangle of small towns in Minnesota. New Trier, Vermillion and Hastings hold some significant genealogy […]
Funeral Arrangements for Sister Margaret Michaud
Sister Margaret Michaud entered eternal life on November 8, 2025. We rejoice with her coming home to God. Well done, good and faithful servant! Funeral Arrangements Thursday, November 20 3–4:15 […]
Daily Meditation for November 10, 2025
People generally enjoy and participate readily in celebrations, lifting one out of the humdrum of every day life. When November rolls in each year, we see two major celebrations on […]
Daily Meditation for November 7, 2025
Dragging my luggage through the especially long airport TSA line on my cross-country trip last week, I quietly observed an array of humanity, all quite patiently and mostly politely jostling […]
Daily Meditation for November 6, 2025
In most Spanish-speaking churches, one will find a statue of a monk in a Dominican habit with a broom! On November 3, we celebrated St. Martin de Porres (of Peru). […]
Daily Meditation for November 5, 2025
The bench along the side of the dinner table can always seat one more person. Hospitality says there is room for additions. Guests are welcome. Extra prepared food makes the […]
Daily Meditation for November 4, 2025
In the Gospel for today’s Mass, Jesus tells the story of the man who planned a big feast and invited many people to come. As the time of the feast […]
