A Reflection for the Feast of St. Mary Magdalene, by Jill Rice
Jill Rice
Jill Rice is a 2022-23 O’Hare Fellow at America. She is now the SEO and Analytics Associate at America. She graduated from Fordham University's Lincoln Center campus and majored in classical languages and comparative literature.
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What one person’s prayer means to God
A Reflection for Monday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Jill Rice
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God speaks to us in the familiar
A Reflection for Wednesday of the Sixth Week of Easter, by Jill Rice
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God’s favorite languages
A Reflection for Monday of the Second Week of Easter, by Jill Rice
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Review: ISIS killed her son. She met them face to face.
‘American Mother,’ Diane Foley’s and Colum McCann’s story of Foley’s life and that of her son, James Foley, is written with a mother’s love, her eventual understanding of hostage situations and her desire for others to understand the struggle she faced.
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The saints remind us: There is no one way to follow the teachings of Jesus
A Reflection for the Memorial of St. Lucy, Virgin and Martyr, by Jill Rice
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Why I strive to be a foreigner going against the grain
A Reflection for the Memorial of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, Virgin, by Jill Rice
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St. Teresa of Avila and the insights of women
A Reflection for the Memorial of Saint Teresa of Jesus, Virgin and Doctor of the Church, by Jill Rice
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The humanity of Jesus: What I learned from the rosary’s luminous mysteries
The luminous mysteries show Jesus’ light in the world. Jesus is fully human and fully divine, and the mysteries we contemplate seem to give full recognition to each, through stories of Jesus living out his public ministry.
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Love is for everyone
A Reflection for Wednesday of the Twenty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time, by Jill Rice