Daily Meditation for April 29, 2026
As spring approached, we experienced potholes in the roadways that result from the freeze/thaw cycles. We’ve come to expect potholes in Minnesota. We learn how to navigate around them, hoping […]
Entries by Emily Vranesh
Daily Meditation for April 28, 2026
Today’s first reading from the Acts of the Apostles recounts a yearlong experience of faith sharing and conversion, as the people of Antioch claimed a new identity as Christians. When […]
Original Blessing Remembered Upon the Return of Artemis
Forget the story beginning with fall. Think instead of a blazing “yes” Before the fruit and wall The cosmos wore a wedding dress. The first clay creature never cursed Rather, […]
Daily Meditation for April 27, 2026
When God speaks, things happen! “And God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light” (Gen. 1:3). How amazing is that? There was nothing, and then there was, well, […]
Daily Meditation for April 24, 2026
In appreciation of God’s gift of trees for the welfare and survival of the environment, this meditation is a spin-off of St. Francis’s Canticle of the Sun as we observe […]
Daily Meditation for April 23, 2026
We all recognize the April “rite of passage”—spring cleaning. While going through this annual exercise—examining every shelf and closet, deciding what to keep and what to discard—we should also take […]
Daily Meditation for April 22, 2026
Joan Chittister writes in her book The time is Now, “Prophetic spirituality is an attitude of the soul” (p.42). She continues to say that the prophet uses this soul-seeing as […]
National Volunteer Month
National Volunteer Month is celebrated each April to honor the contributions and impact of volunteers around the country. We are especially grateful for our own volunteers! Throughout the month, we’ve […]
Daily Meditation for April 21, 2026
Historically, we can trace the production and consumption of bread to over 20 thousand years ago—when wheat was domesticated in ancient civilizations such as Egypt and Greece. Sometimes called the […]
Daily Meditation for April 20, 2026
Some people do not communicate clearly. There are many reasons for this of course: speech impediment, diminished sense of self-worth, inability to find the right way of saying something—the list […]
