Ordinary Time – Season of Stability Hour after hour. Around in circles on the school parking lot, I remember running alongside my children, supporting their bikes lest they topple, picking them up when they fell, putting them back on again. Hour after hour, I taught and coached them. Summer after summer. Stopping and starting. Slowing […]
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Ordinary Time – Season of Stability Our Father who art in heaven takes on a whole different meaning once your earthly father is gone. No one to call on Father’s Day, to buy tacky ties for or a bottle of his favorite booze. No more wondering what to get someone who has everything. Not that […]
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Ordinary Time – Season of Stability William Blake spoke of seeing the world in a grain of sand. If that is possible, it is no less possible to see the world in a kernel of wheat. A kernel of wheat is wondrous, lovely to behold. So simple and yet so complex. A kernel of wheat […]
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Ordinary Time – Season of Stability “Tony, Tony, come around, something’s lost and must be found.” Desperation, superstitious mumbo jumbo, I once thought about praying to St. Anthony in order to find lost items, until I was given a copy of the formal prayer. The actual prayer is a prayer of abandonment to God’s will. […]
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Ordinary Time – Season of Stability The Irish may not have invented the Trinity, yet from the way they pray you might think so. Celtic spirituality is Trinitarian in its essence. The Irish love triads, arrangements of three statements that summed up a person, quality, mood or simply linked incompatible objects. They especially loved it […]
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Ordinary Time – Season of Stability To bless is to sanctify, make holy, make happy. Celtic spirituality is full of blessings. A blessing for every day and every occasion. Children are blessed as they leave their homes for school. Homes are blessed, the daily fire is blessed, as well as meals. We here in America have […]
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Ordinary Time – Season of Stability It’s not easy, being green . . . or so says Kermit the Frog. But I disagree. I love this season of the year and all of the shades of green. Green leaves, green grass, evergreen trees. Green is everywhere, in our church sanctuaries as well. It’s not easy, […]
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Ordinary Time – Season of Stability There are seasons in the year, seasons in the church year, seasons in our life and seasons of the soul. Times of new life and growth, followed by times of dying, times of rest and hibernation in preparation for new growth. God gave us seasons for a reason–that we […]
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Easter – Season of New Life A wedding in June. Flowers everywhere. Young life, young love—energetic and restless–stirring anew your love in us, expressing their love in commitment. New love–a new life together. What could be better! The community of believers were of one heart and one mind. Acts 4:32 This post is […]
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Easter – Preparing for Pentecost So often the Spirit is depicted as a gentle dove bringing gifts of wisdom, peace, joy, compassion. But God’s spirit is not a weak, wimpy one. It is also a spirit of courage, wild and untamed. Celtic Christians referred to God’s Spirit as a wild goose, wild, untamed, unpredictable, uncontrollable. […]
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