Epiphany has come and gone. But this year, it struck me for the first time that the feast we celebrate is actually composed of several epiphanies—and that comes as something of a relief.
Simcha Fisher
Simcha Fisher is a speaker, freelance writer, regular contributor to The Catholic Weekly and author of The Sinner’s Guide to Natural Family Planning. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband and 10 children.
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What researching my ancestry taught me about being an adopted child of God
We are not only the family of God because of an act of love but, because he was born as one of us, we are now also biologically like God. We are genetically related to him because he became one of us.
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Start each day by thanking God
A Reflection for the Memorial of Saint Ambrose, Bishop and Doctor of the Church, by Simcha Fisher
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The joy and the pain of being a Catholic foster parent
If foster care works as it is designed to, that sacrifice will lead to goodbyes. The tension can be brutal. It’s also profoundly Christlike.
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Jesus likes you. Come on home.
A Reflection for Thursday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time, by Simcha Fisher
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Vaccines have become the victim of their own success. You could say the same for Jesus.
If we have grown up Catholic, or even if our conversion or reversion was a few years ago, it is very easy to start taking salvation for granted.
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The point of the Good Samaritan parable is to unsettle us
A Reflection for the Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary, by Simcha Fisher
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The life-changing generosity of Jesus
A Reflection for Thursday of the Twenty-third Week in Ordinary Time, by Simcha Fisher
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A surprising Gospel miracle
A Reflection for Monday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Simcha Fisher
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Did God save Donald Trump’s life?
Once we start thinking about what God clearly made happen or clearly didn’t make happen, it opens up a whole world of uncomfortable questions.