by Kathleen Staudt | Jul 22, 2026 | poetry, saints, spirituality
Today, July 22, is the Feast Day of St. Mary Magdalene – one of my most cherished saints of the Church. The story of her meeting with the Risen Jesus in the garden, told in John 20, is really the origin story of Christianity, if you think about it. And I...
by Kathleen Staudt | Nov 19, 2022 | Evelyn Underhill, poetry, spiritual direction/companionship, spirituality
I’ll be offering a talk on Evelyn Underhill next month as part of the Women Mystics School sponsored by Kelly Deutsch’s Spiritual Wanderlust website. In preparation and I suppose as a teaser, Kelly interviewed me for a podcast in the...
by Kathleen Staudt | Jul 7, 2020 | anti-racism, Justice, poetry
Years ago, visiting the Jefferson Memorial, I noticed these words inscribed on the wall – I am surprised that there hasn’t been more mention of them in our recent national conversation about racism and white supremacy He writes – way too mildly, we can all...
by Kathleen Staudt | May 31, 2020 | Justice, mourning, poetry, prayer
The church celebrates the Feast of Pentecost today: the day when the first Christians, gathered in fear after Jesus’ Ascension, received the gift of the Holy Spirit, coming as tongues of flame, with a sound like a rushing wind. (Acts 2:1-11). I write this as...
by Kathleen Staudt | Apr 4, 2020 | attentiveness, poetry, retreats, social distancing, spirituality
As a retreat leader I have always been most energized by working off the presence of those in the room and I do miss that physical closeness. A lot of retreat work I had scheduled for this spring has been cancelled or in a few cases has gone on line, but I thought...
by Kathleen Staudt | Mar 19, 2020 | nature, poetry
We lost my mom just before the pandemic took hold in our communities, so this spring, coinciding with the Lenten season, has been more than usual a season of loss, of grieving, of concern for so many kinds of suffering in our communities and our neighborhoods. ...