Nicole Walters

There are seasons in life when the path ahead feels both full of possibility and strangely difficult to see. I find myself in one of those seasons now. I am in the midst of transition again , completing this chapter of my ordination journey and beginning the search for my first call as a priest. It is a holy threshold, and I am deeply aware of that. And still, it is also a place of unknowing. I do not yet know where I will be sent or what shape this next season will take. Some days, trust...

Easter is not a day. It is a season. For fifty days, the Church lingers in the mystery of the resurrection, walking with the disciples in that strange and holy in-between—after the empty tomb, but before everything fully makes sense. It is a season not just of celebration, but of discovery. Because the question is not only that Christ is risen, but what it actually looks like to live in light of that reality. What does resurrection faith look like? What does it mean to know and follow a God...

There are moments in the life of the Church that feel less like events and more like thresholds, spaces where time slows, where heaven seems to press a little closer to earth, and where we are invited not just to remember the story of Christ, but to walk within it. Holy Week at St. Columba’s Inverness, CA is one of those moments. This year, I had the profound privilege of serving as Deacon for the full arc of the Triduum, from Palm Sunday through the first Alleluias of Easter morning. To step...