This past Easter, for the first time, I sang the Exsultet. Sensing my hesitancy, one of the Visitation Sisters said, “It’s just us here.” Those words continue to echo in my heart. How does this simple phrase bring us closer to the people around us and closer to God?...

The liturgical momentum from Holy Thursday through Easter Sunday is both exhilarating and exhausting. After the Easter Masses, I was ready for some rest. How does St. Francis teach the importance of “holy recreation”?

To love is to open ourselves up to be vulnerable. As we journey through life and face loss, how do we respond? If we love again, we will just hurt again? Should we just protect our hearts and not love?…