Gospel: (John 20: 19-23)  On the evening of that first day of the week, when the doors were locked, where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst and said to them, “Peace be with you.”  When he had said this to them, he showed...

Gospel: (Matthew 10:37-42)  Jesus said to his apostles: “Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever does not take up his cross and follow after me is not worthy of...

Human suffering took many forms in the wake of the 2019 Memorial Day tornadoes, seemingly afflicting those with the fewest resources to address the loss and the trauma.  A mother and two children, everything lost, sleeping under a picnic table in the park.  A young...

“The morning after the tornadoes, when daylight was upon us, and I got a good look at the back of the house all blown out. What the tornado did not carry away was thrown everywhere, but there wasn’t a piece of clothing, a toothbrush, a hairbrush, or a pair of shoes to...

“The evening of Memorial Day, 2019 started out as a regular night. We had a chill night—my husband Jason and I and Cash, one of my dogs, were sitting on the front porch. We had no idea storms were coming in. Then the skies went dark. When the rain started, I got the...