Ordinary Time – Feast of Dominic Dominic, great preacher and teacher, he left the confines of a contemplative lifestyle in order to be an itinerate preacher. Founder of the order of Preachers, his mission–to speak only of God, or with God–lasts long after he is gone. His ministry continues: a continuation of that great mandate […]
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Ordinary Time – Season of Stability Sometimes Scripture fails me. It is flat and tasteless in my mouth. No words of inspiration or exhortation. Sometimes it misleads me. I focus on that which isn’t for me and ignore that which is truly directed at me. Sometimes prayer fails me. Search though I might, I find […]
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Ordinary Time – Season of Stability Married life isn’t lived just on the peaks, the happy moments of celebration, nor is it just for the valley times to support each other through times of sorrow and loss. A good deal of married life is spent on the plateau of day to day living, bearing with […]
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Looking at those two deck chairs, which one is mine, and which one is reserved for my writing companion, my dog, Seamus? Last week I spent Monday through Friday at my nephew’s cottage at Lake St. James. (It’s a tough life, the life of a writer.) It was just what I needed to kick start […]
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Ordinary Time – Feast Day of Alphonsus Ligori Alphonsus Ligouri was a learned man, a great lawyer who lost only one case during his eight years of practice, a great confessor and moral theologian. In a time when penitents were treated as criminals who must be punished, he treated all who came to him with kindness, […]
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Ordinary Time – Feast Day of Ignatius Loyola Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuits, but even more important, originator of the Ignatian method of prayer, the examen, author of the 30 day Ignatian retreat and a guide for discernment of spirits. He was also a patron for those confined to bed for long recoveries. Wounded […]
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Ordinary Time – Feast Day of St. Martha Martha, so busy about so many things, the work horse. She is the one you can count on, the one who takes care of all of the details, all of the organizing and arrangements. She is the keeper of the calendar for all family members, the one […]
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Ordinary Time – Season of Stability The walls are a tacky green, the carpet an even tackier blue-green. There isn’t much to it. It’s no dream house, but it was theirs. Theirs to live in as long as they make those monthly payments. Theirs to paint. They can put in a new carpet, make it […]
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Ordinary Time – Season of Stability “I’m bored.” “Boring.” “Bored, bored, bored!” How I hate those words. Bored people sometimes act crazy to relieve their boredom. Children pick fights. Teenagers dare each other to do things they later regret. Some married couples seek extramarital affairs. Some adults throw away jobs, careers. How can anyone find […]
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Ordinary Time – Season of Stability Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn’t know it so it goes on flying anyway. (Mary Kay Ash) Or so the myth goes. Still I love the idea. The humble bumble bee can teach us a few tricks! Sometimes it’s better if […]
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