Your Present Circumstances

Your Present Circumstances

What are your present circumstances? Are you in a season where you are feeling God’s love a lot? Are you in a season of suffering? In Philippians, St. Paul tells us his circumstances and how he responds to them in the power of the Holy Spirit: I want you to...
A Privilege to Serve, Reasons for Gratitude

A Privilege to Serve, Reasons for Gratitude

Dear Friends and Fellow Disciples, As usual, there is a lot going on—thanks be to God! So much great work for the kingdom is being made possible through your support! The class I taught during the fall semester at the seminary was perhaps my best class ever, both...
What Would Monica Do?

What Would Monica Do?

Discovering the Faith I met my husband, Mark, in the Peace Corps in the Marshall Islands. Mark died on May 11, 2024. We had been married almost forty-three years, and it was a day and fifteen minutes before his sixty-eighth birthday. When we met, we were we were both...
The School of Healing

The School of Healing

I was born with an extra bone in my foot that causes severe pain. Once I stopped growing, I underwent invasive surgery. It was just a week after my conversion, and I spent a week in the hospital. During that time, I constantly recited the Hail Mary, one of the only...