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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Ordinary Time As a child, my Sundays consisted of going to church then having a family meal in the early afternoon, followed by long hours while my dad watched whatever sport was on TV and we waited for our turn to watch “The Wonderful World of Disney,” on the one TV set we owned. It […]
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Advent – Season of Hope They were relieved to finally sit down after the day of Christmas shopping. The church was quiet as worshipers slipped into pews. It was a quiet oasis after fighting crowds and listening to Christmas “musak” all day. The plaintive strains of “O Come, O Come Emmanuel,” began, the first candle […]
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