My heart sank last week as I read Kate’s blog entry, “Done.” In her testimony about trying to leave Catholicism, she wrote, “I’m feeling these days like I’m in the midst of a breakup, you know, the really horrible kind where you know it isn’t going to work but you want it to so badly [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Ministry’
April 4, 2010
In NCCL Magazine: “Challenge for Easter People”
Check out my article, “Challenge for Easter People” in the March/April issue of the Catechetical Leader, a publication of the National Conference for Catechetical Leadership (NCCL).
October 18, 2009
Go Ahead, Again
In the process of juggling the heavy chalice and coarse white napkin during my first occasion of serving as a Eucharist Minister, I managed to spill the sweet, red, consecrated wine—the Blood of Christ. It spilled all over my shaking hands. It formed a tiny puddle atop of the burnt red tile of the Mission [...]
September 28, 2009
Suspicious (and Outraged). Justifiably So?
I was sitting in a coffee shop in Cambridge, happily reading a book on this beautiful day, when I received a Catholic news update from the National Catholic Reporter (NCR). I was so upset by what I read that I simply could not return to my previous reading. As many of you know, last year [...]
September 27, 2009
Our Humility and Our Giftedness
Oh, God help me, daughters, how many souls must have been made to suffer great loss in this way by the devil! These souls think that all such fears stem from humility…The fears come from ourselves, for this lack of freedom from ourselves, and even more, is what can be feared.” –Teresa of Avila, from [...]
September 23, 2009
I Couldn’t Stay
Check out my latest blog entry on CTA’s Young Adult Catholic Blog, entitled “I Couldn’t Stay.”
August 29, 2009
How to Change A Church
Yesterday I sat on the steps of Harvard Divinity School with Tim, a learned, enthusiastic lawyer who has returned to grad school to study church history. Guided by Tim’s astoundingly well-rounded studies, our conversation weaved in and out of a number of topics, including our faith lives and religious traditions–he, a practicing Mormon, and [...]
March 27, 2009
You read my writing. Now hear me speak!
Check out my podcast interview on Young Adult Ministry in Los Angeles! Raymond Nanadiego, a Young Adult Minsitry Coordinator at St. Paul the Apostle in Chino Hills, CA, runs an a great Web site with online resources for Young Adult Ministry. He interviewed Theresa Thibodeaux, the Coordinator of Young Adult Ministry in the Archdiocese of [...]
March 26, 2009
A Humble Call to Action: Tithe
Check out my latest blog entry, “A Humble Call to Action: Tithe,” on CTA’s Young Adult Catholics blog. It’s a follow-up to a post I made on this site awhile back.
March 19, 2009
A Room of One’s Own for Ruth Kolpack, and Me
Check out my post, “A Room of One’s Own for Ruth Kolpack, and Me” concerning the firing of Pastoral Associate Ruth Kolpack at CTA’s Young Adult Catholic Blog.
