September 15, 2026 From Brian Fisher’s Soil and Roots, August 11, 2026 edition (an adapted excerpt) Dreamstime.com Things that Make You Go Hmmm… If God’s first invitation, the Creation Mandate, remains active and is central to our purpose as apprentices with Jesus, it raises some pressing questions. If we are co-stewards with God over creation, shouldn’t those who love Jesus be among the primary active voices and participants in caring for nature? I’m not talking about radic

September 1 2026 Getty Images for Unsplash Every week in the beautiful liturgies of the Community of St Bridget, we pray the words of Jesus. The translations and ideas vary because ours is a very big God. Every week there is opportunity for a deep dive into the words of the Word. Here is a meditation on the opening words of that prayer. from “Prayers of the Cosmos: Meditations on the Aramaic words of Jesus” Translated and with commentary by Neil Douglas-Klotz Our Birth in

August 15, 2026 by MECollingwood It appears that we are constantly being challenged by someone else’s interpretation of history. The solemnity we celebrate today is no different. This is a brief history of how Mary’s role was given a place in Church history, as promulgated by the Church. We know that the Assumption was officially defined as a dogma in the Roman Catholic Church in 1950, by Pope Pius XII in the Apostolic Constitution entitled “Munificentissimus Deus”. With

August 1, 2026 Aleksandr Eremin on Unsplash by FFrances Perhaps it is a hangover from school days when the summer holidays eventually arrive with sighs of relief and shouts of joy. Perhaps because these summer days, for some of us, are just too hot to do anything but hide from the fierce sun in the middle of the day and condense the excitement of living to the cool of the early morning and the gentler warmth of the evening breezes. It is the season of Summer. If you can, take

–excerpt from In Search of Belief by Joan Chittister, OSB (adapted) July 15, 2026 Signs of the Times – Jotham Kingston Do I believe in the Holy Spirit? You bet I do. Nothing else makes sense. Either the Spirit of God who created us is with us still, either the presence of Christ who is the Way abides in us in spirit, or the God of Creation and the Deliverer of Souls has never been with us at all. God’s Spirit does not abandon us, if God is really God. If we are to understa

A reflection on infinite forgiveness, infinite mercy, and infinite love: inspired by Teresa of Avila July 1, 2026 Kaupo Kalda on Unsplash by FFrances A photograph arrived in my messages. That is how I learned that my sister had married. I wasn’t invited to the wedding. It was a shock to suddenly receive a photograph of the happy couple. I need to work to make sense of what I am seeing. So many feelings aroused. It feels quite momentous. A fracture in the normal. A blow to t