Category: Reflections
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No Consecration by William Droel
Learning from other liturgical rites can help us see that God is bigger than any one formula for the Mass.
July 10, 2024/by tac![Shaddox_Prayer](https://www.todaysamericancatholic.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Shaddox_Prayer-705x470.jpg)
Prayer in the Shadow of Fascism by Colleen Shaddox
"Send me running across dewy grass toward last embraces. . . ."
July 8, 2024/by tac![Hickin_Eclipse_1](https://www.todaysamericancatholic.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Hickin_Eclipse_1-705x443.jpg)
The Black Bread of Life: Food for the Dark Side of the Journey by Rev. Michael Hickin
I was there, and this is what the eclipse means to me: humans are drawn to darkness.
May 29, 2024/by tac![Storz_Western](https://www.todaysamericancatholic.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Storz_Western-705x470.jpg)
A Poem by Walker Storz
"I fear mostly / the death of the part of myself / which can play, / the death of love / and the quick march / of industrial time . . ."
May 24, 2024/by tac![Probst Miller_Open Letter](https://www.todaysamericancatholic.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Probst-Miller_Open-Letter-705x470.jpg)
Love, Hope, and “Adelante!”: An Open Letter to the Church on the Diaconate for Women
Why did you ask us to discern restoring women to the diaconate synodally if you were not willing to allow the Holy Spirit time to move?
May 23, 2024/by tac![Kaufman_Espriu](https://www.todaysamericancatholic.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Kaufman_Espriu-705x470.jpg)
Two Poems By Salvador Espriu Translated by Andrew Kaufman and Antonio Cortijo Ocaña
"in peace, in the tranquil / rooms of my dreams, / your mercy will welcome me . . ."
May 20, 2024/by tac![Ferraro_Argue](https://www.todaysamericancatholic.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Ferraro_Argue-705x470.jpg)
No Need to Argue by Julie A. Ferraro
Who ends up suffering, after all? The children, the poor, all made homeless as buildings are reduced to rubble.
May 1, 2024/by tac![SCC Essay 1_Image](https://www.todaysamericancatholic.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/SCC-Essay-1_Image-705x470.jpg)
Mystery and Simplicity by Michael Centore
A reflection on the readings for the Fourth Sunday of Easter, inspired by our TAC small Christian community gatherings.
April 18, 2024/by tac![DCruz_Mystical Community](https://www.todaysamericancatholic.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/DCruz_Mystical-Community-705x470.jpg)
The Mystical Community by O’Neill D’Cruz
How do mystics find the spiritual resources and resilience to love and care for a world that often misunderstands them?
April 18, 2024/by tac![Ferraro_True Self](https://www.todaysamericancatholic.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Ferraro_True-Self-705x470.jpg)
Seeking the Authentic Self by Julie A. Ferraro
If being a sinner is the rationale for denying someone a blessing, then none of us should receive one.
April 16, 2024/by tac![Valente_3](https://www.todaysamericancatholic.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Valente_3-705x470.jpg)
“A Letter Is a Joy of Earth”: Selected Correspondence from Judith Valente and Brother Paul Quenon’s “How to Be”
A Trappist monk and a journalist rediscover the lost art of letter-writing as a spiritual practice.
April 3, 2024/by tac![Synod 2024](https://www.todaysamericancatholic.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Synod-2024-705x470.jpg)
Hidden Under the Whole of Life: Synodality and Liturgy by Michael Centore
When the church calls for liturgical renewal, what it seems to be seeking is a reexperience of the livingness, of the “life-itselfness” of the Eucharist.
March 29, 2024/by tac![Droel_Experience](https://www.todaysamericancatholic.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Droel_Experience-705x470.jpg)
Experience Counts by William Droel
An accumulation of experience combined with sustained reflection improves our understanding of God’s truth.
March 25, 2024/by tac![Salone_Lent](https://www.todaysamericancatholic.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Salone_Lent-705x470.jpg)
Departure, Encounter, and Return: A Lenten Meditation by Fran Salone-Pelletier
Lent is a gift of time set aside to ponder who we really are.
March 13, 2024/by tac