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Rhonda Miska is a preacher, teacher, spiritual director, writer, and lay ecclesial minister. She serves as Communication Director at the Church of St. Timothy and is a member of St. Thomas More Catholic Community in the Archdiocese of St. Paul/Minneapolis. Rhonda is the founder and co-convener of the Catholic Women’s Preaching Circle, a peer community of Catholic women supporting and accompanying one another in breaking open God’s Word. She serves as the Lead Cohort Facilitator of PROCLAIM, a 22-month formation program for Catholic women in preaching and ministry of the Word.

Rhonda holds an MA from the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry and a certificate in spiritual direction. She is currently pursuing a Doctorate of Ministry in Preaching from the Aquinas Institute of Theology.  She has served in parishes, universities, retreat centers, and as a Jesuit Volunteer (Nicaragua, 2002-2004). Her passion for preaching led her to discern vowed life with the Order of Preachers and she was in formation with Dominican Sisters from 2016-2020. Rhonda has served on the advisory board of Catholic Women Preach since its inception. She is active with Discerning Deacons, a movement to engage Catholics in discernment around the restoration of the diaconate to women.

Her writing has appeared in Catholic Women Speak: Bringing Our Gifts to the Table (Paulist Press, 2016), Pope Francis Lexicon (Collegeville, 2018), Catholic Women Preach: Raising Voices, Renewing the Church(2022), and Green Saints for a Green Generation (Orbis, 2024). She has also published in various print and online publications including America Magazine, U.S. Catholic, and Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry.

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February 1, 2026

Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time

As you move through life this week, look at yourself, your friends, your family, your community, your neighbors, and your enemies through Beatitudes lenses.What do you see? And how will you choose to act?
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February 24, 2019

Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time

This Gospel challenges each of us, as it challenged the original listeners, to creative nonviolent resistance to injustice.
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February 26, 2017

Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time

In freedom from anxiety, there is freedom for becoming who we are truly meant to be
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