A Reflection for Thursday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time, by Valerie Schultz
Valerie Schultz
Valerie Schultz is a freelance writer, a columnist for The Bakersfield Californian and the author of Till the Moon Be No More: The Grit and Grace of Growing Older. She lives on the Oregon Coast.
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The great message of ‘Our Town’: Nostalgia and regret come with age. So do grace and compassion.
Good theater draws us into its few hours of seeming reality, but it is most effective when it speaks to our lived reality.
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All God’s (Grand)children
A Reflection for a Christmas Weekday, by Valerie Schultz
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The dread (and arrogance) of waiting for the Apocalypse
A Reflection for Friday of the Thirty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time, by Valerie Schultz
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What can ordinary Catholics do to change unjust laws? A story about anti-Nazi activism offers possibilities
Many of us regular folks, powerless folks, are intimidated by the possible danger of opposing hateful statutes carried out in our name.
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Images and promises for the afterlife
A Reflection for the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed (All Souls), by Valerie Schultz
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Wherever we go, God is with us
A Reflection for Tuesday of the Twenty-sixth Week in Ordinary Time, by Valerie Schultz
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Being saved by the person you least expect
A Reflection for Monday of the Twenty-second Week in Ordinary Time, by Valerie Schultz
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The deeper message behind the Gospel call to feed the hungry
A Reflection for Monday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Valerie Schultz
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The lesson of August 6: The Transfiguration, Hiroshima and our human contradictions
On Aug. 6, we wrestle with the dramatic extremes of good and evil, as symbolized by the ancient glory of the Transfiguration and the utter destruction of that first atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.