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Monthly Archives: April 2012
The Fine Print
It’s the Easter Season and “all creation is shouting for joy,” but part of me is going back a couple weeks to where Mary meets her Son on the road to Calvary. As any mother knows it’s far better to … Continue reading
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Tagged Children, Cross, divorce, Easter, Good Friday, Mary, Motherhood, Suffer
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Thomas and the Bum Rap
Poor Thomas, if anyone in history has a bum rap it would be him, saddled for all time with the moniker Doubting Thomas. The gospels don’t mention where he was when Jesus came to the upper room. It’s not important. … Continue reading
A Stone’s Throw
Sister held the large gray river rock and prayed for a moment. Turning to the woman next to her she held it out and said, “Has no one condemned you? Neither will I condemn you.” The person who accepted the … Continue reading
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Tagged difficulty, gospel, Lazarus, life, path, prayer, retreat, scripture
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Prayers Well Spoken
It is better to say one Our Father fervently and devoutly than a thousand with no devotion and full of distraction. — St. Edmund Saint Edmund must have had ADHD, otherwise he would have been able to get through a … Continue reading
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Tagged conversation with God, devotion, Ignatius, love, marriage, prayer
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An Easter People?
“Do not despair. We are an Easter people and Hallelujah is our song.” Pope John Paul II (the great) Really? Sometimes it’s so hard to see the Easter in people. We don’t seem to be able to be nice to … Continue reading
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Tagged Alleluia, Catholics, Easter, Eucharist, Fulton Sheen, John Paul II, Mass
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Lillies and Pot Pie
Everything’s finally quiet. Jesus has risen, we all sang “Alleluia!” and the world has gone back to work. A beautiful Lenten season filled with meditation, scripture, prayers and penance culminated in a week filled with emotional highs and lows; intrigue, … Continue reading
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Tagged Apostles, Celebration, Church, Easter, Emmaus, Music, Paul, Thomas
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The Empty Tabernacle
I’ve been planning and playing the Holy Week liturgies since I was a kid, but it gets me every single time – the empty tabernacle. I know it’s coming, I’m ready for it, but it’s still a shock to see … Continue reading
Funeral
For a family there is no good time for a funeral. It’s Holy Week and we buried one of our parishioners today. Being part of the bereavement team I have some interaction with families during the time they are preparing … Continue reading
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Tagged four gospels, jesus crucifixion, joseph of arimathea
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The Sound of Ultimate Suffering
The verses of Psalm 22, the Responsorial Psalm for Palm Sunday, are chillingly prophetical. The description of the terrible events of Jesus’ final hours is amazingly accurate. Jesus is feeling completely abandoned by God, void of any consolation from his … Continue reading
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Tagged faith, psalm 22, religion, responsorial psalm, saint francis of assisi, spirituality
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Holy Week
And so it begins…the time of the year that the Church remembers the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Our Lord, Holy Week. The Church is never as radiant and breathtaking as she is during this week and the liturgies and … Continue reading
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