Eccomi

“We are an Easter people and Alleluia is our song.”   I’ve been thinking about this statement over and over again for the past week. It...

I've been thinking a lot about my time working in Texas doing Know Your Rights presentations to people seeking asylum. Some of the most...

“Who is your Herod?” This question was posed to me in a sermon by a German priest presiding over an English mass on the feast of the...

"You're so brave" might be one of my least favorite and most awkward sentences to receive. And in the ramp up and beginning to my moving...

A dear friend recently told me about a song she had that she used to reflect upon her last year…a backing track of sorts. That mode of...

the little tiny things I have learned to pay attention to this summer: the way that ocean air smells and feels how the moon reflects on...

I was sitting in class last March when we received the following prompt: Write a letter to your current self, from your future self Oof....

There are so many things I could write now. Countless updates about discernment, fear, cross-country moves, soul wrenching goodbyes and...

En ingles, ni tampoco en espanol... This is a phrase I have sat with since I began immigration work as a Jesuit Volunteer, and one that...

I live in a country in which we say “We are a nation of immigrants” when it suits us. When it doesn’t, we simply say “Go home.” “You’re...

Two years ago, I was in the middle of my first semester of my last year of college. I was trying to handle a campus that was divided on...

The Good News, by Thich Nhat Hanh They don’t publish the good news. The good news is published by us. We have a special edition every...

I’ve been absent in this space. I know that’s how I start a lot of these posts. I want to write and don’t and then feel too far gone from...

This year is fraught with paradox (blessed with paradox?) in so many ways. A way that I am finding personally frustrating is this: the...

They were just prepackaged cookies and a paper cup full of water. Just snacks that we had in the office. Just my inadequate response to...

College turned me into a runner. Well, more specifically, Hannah, Joe, and Caitlin turned me into a runner. Some of my best college...

Howdy y'all! I'm officially back in full swing in Houston. I've been sitting on this post for a week now, unsure whether to hit post or...

First up, a (long, in the best way possible!) meet the Casamate! "Howdy! Gabriela’s roomie, Sarah Shorter, here! Coming to you live from...

I’ve been really quiet in this space, but there has been a lot of processing outside of it! During November, I participated in my own...

Howdy from the JV House in Houston! I don’t normally write on Tuesdays, but I am headed on retreat and have some thoughts before heading...