Ordinary Time – the Feast of the Chair of Peter A feast day to celebrate a chair? But not just any chair. The chair of Peter is the seat of the bishop of Rome, the Pope. Peter stumbled at times in his life, struggling to live up to the challenge of following Jesus and leading […]
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Ordinary Time Do re mi fa so la ti do ti la so fa me re do. Up and down, over and over, my daughter practices her scales. Day in, day out, till I hear them in my sleep. I don’t want to hear scales endlessly repeated. I want to hear Mozart and Chopin, Gershwin, […]
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Ordinary Time I have an unspoken rule in my life. Never disturb a cat sleeping on my lap. Now I’m not always allowed to follow that rule as demands of phone, children and the dog, often force me to move my sleeping bundle and get up, still I think it’s a good rule. Makes sense […]
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Ordinary Time Boredom is a great tool. It is the artist’s tool. I had never considered boredom as being good till reading a book on art that claimed boredom as a tool. Only boring people are bored, I used to think. How could anyone be bored when there is so much to do, so much […]
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Ordinary Time, Valentine’s Day Hearts and flowers, flowers and hearts. Again we water down a saint, St. Valentine, and a word – love! (more on Valentine) Valentine isn’t given a day in the church calendar and yet society has chosen this day in recognition of love. Love is more than hearts and flowers and candy. […]
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Ordinary Time A blanket of snow covers the earth. I am warm and snug in my home, looking out at the white expanse. Eventually I will have to move. Eventually I will have to get up, get going, shovel the walks and the driveway, but for now I am content. White, such an ordinary color. […]
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Ordinary Time What is so wrong with being ordinary? Nobody wants to be ordinary. They want to be different. They may even believe themselves to be somehow different in a mighty hubris. They don’t want to admit that they are just human like all the rest of us. No better. No worse. Just human. It’s […]
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Ordinary Time When I was a child, I remember reading the lives of the saints. They were every bit as good as any adventure story I had read. Some even bordered on horror as I read of saints being tormented by the devil throughout the night. I was grateful not to be afflicted with sainthood, […]
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Ordinary Time Growing up in Michigan, I remember the slogan “Winter Wonderland” depicting Michigan’s winter beauty. We’ve long since given up that slogan for other slogans, but the term remains engrained in my psyche. It is a way to get through drab, dreary cold winter days by focusing on the beauty of snow covered hills […]
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Ordinary Time The dentist has me tap, tap, tap, then grind my teeth as he sought to adjust my bite. It’s a wonder to me how these teeth have to line up so perfectly lest they hit too hard or scrape as the jaw slides, thereby causing pain and deterioration of the tooth. In theory, […]
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