Moses and the Burning Bush, Sébastien Bourdon, 17th century. Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is about this time that Easter starts to feel a bit exhausting. Anyone else? So often I work in the extremes, either extremely feasting or extremely penitential. The virtue is in the middle and that is often zoomed over in my quest for being deeply invested in what I am doing. The first verse of the Gospel today really hit me, “If you love me, you will keep my commandments” (John...

Saint Catherine of Siena, Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, 1919. The Golden Book of Famous Women, Eleanor Foretescue-Brickdale. I recently heard in a podcast something that went like this “There are some topics about the Catholic faith that should not be talked about in OCIA until the very end. That includes relics and Saint Catherine of Siena”. Now when I tell you this makes me continually laugh about the truthfulness to it, it would be an understatement. From levitating to a mystical marriage...

The Incredulity of Saint Thomas, Caravaggio, 1601-1602. We have been in this blessed Easter season for one whole week. Can you feel the grace? Can you feel the mercy? This Divine Mercy Sunday was put into place to remind us of how supernatural, how awe-inspiring, how deep, how wide is the mercy of God. The mercy that He extends to us is His body, blood, soul and divinity raised from the dead. What a thing that we are allowed to celebrate and partake in. This painting is one of the best...