Mary and Elizabeth’s meeting is the prophetic defiant joy that God is not only among these women, but within these women.

Sarah

Simmons, CSJ

Mary and Elizabeth’s meeting is the prophetic defiant joy that God is not only among these women, but within these women.

We cannot create rigid boundaries that miss the point by excluding people from God’s expansive, overarching love.

Christine

Schenk, C.S.J.

We cannot create rigid boundaries that miss the point by excluding people from God’s expansive, overarching love.

I hope we can allow ourselves to transform these recesses and shadows into spaces of resistance and solidarity from which we might emerge sure of our dignity, sure of the Spirit moving through us, and sure of God’s love.

Mary M.

Doyle Roche

I hope we can allow ourselves to transform these recesses and shadows into spaces of resistance and solidarity from which we might emerge sure of our dignity, sure of the Spirit moving through us, and sure of God’s love.

Knowing about Phoebe, the role she played in the early church, and Paul’s recognition of her, however, affirms my call and gives me hope!

Rose

Lue

Knowing about Phoebe, the role she played in the early church, and Paul’s recognition of her, however, affirms my call and gives me hope!

On this day, can we, like Mary, run and share the news of Jesus’ presence in our world? ... This Good News can change our hearts and change the world, if only we believe.

Dr. C. Vanessa

White

On this day, can we, like Mary, run and share the news of Jesus’ presence in our world? ... This Good News can change our hearts and change the world, if only we believe.

Those relationships in our lives in which we grow in discipleship, in compassion, justice, humility, and the other qualities we grow into in as we tag along with our brother Jesus—that’s where our family is.

Lisa

Fullam, D.V.M., Th.D.

Those relationships in our lives in which we grow in discipleship, in compassion, justice, humility, and the other qualities we grow into in as we tag along with our brother Jesus—that’s where our family is.

We are all people of invaluable worth. Share your gifts. It is a timeless blessing for those who give and for those who receive.

Rosemary

Johnston

We are all people of invaluable worth. Share your gifts. It is a timeless blessing for those who give and for those who receive.

[Phoebe and Gregory] were, at heart, both deacons, and their hearts contained the Good News, the message of the Gospels.

Phyllis

Zagano

[Phoebe and Gregory] were, at heart, both deacons, and their hearts contained the Good News, the message of the Gospels.

May today’s feast remind us of our own Yes to God’s call as consecrated people of God in our different spheres of life.

Sr. Chioma

Sr. Chioma Ahanihu, SLW

May today’s feast remind us of our own Yes to God’s call as consecrated people of God in our different spheres of life.

We are called to find the cracks in our experience and in the realities of our world and church. We are called to make them visible so that grief and anxiety can be transformed into light and goodness – if we only listen.

Antoinette

Gutzler

We are called to find the cracks in our experience and in the realities of our world and church. We are called to make them visible so that grief and anxiety can be transformed into light and goodness – if we only listen.

We walk by faith and we know that the Holy Spirit will not deny what the Church needs.

Svea

Fraser, M.Div

We walk by faith and we know that the Holy Spirit will not deny what the Church needs.

With today’s chaos of wars, famines, natural disasters, compounded by political factions and grievances we need to maintain faith in the God of the Living and Practice Gratitude.

Rita L.

Houlihan

With today’s chaos of wars, famines, natural disasters, compounded by political factions and grievances we need to maintain faith in the God of the Living and Practice Gratitude.

Today is the day we resurrect our dreams, our faith, our peace, whatever it is we have buried.

Kimberly

Lymore

Today is the day we resurrect our dreams, our faith, our peace, whatever it is we have buried.

Phoebe is another woman silenced in the lectionary, but who was not so silent in her own context. She was a woman of influence: minister, deacon, and sponsor of one of the earliest churches.

Carolyn

Osiek, RSCJ

Phoebe is another woman silenced in the lectionary, but who was not so silent in her own context. She was a woman of influence: minister, deacon, and sponsor of one of the earliest churches.

As we approach this Holy Week, May we find comfort in the words of mercy poured out Even in the midst of trial.

Nichole

Flores

As we approach this Holy Week, May we find comfort in the words of mercy poured out Even in the midst of trial.