“The rest is silence,” Hamlet’s last words – an interesting word choice for someone who never had an unspoken thought, or so it seems to me as he shared with us, the audience, all of his ruminations. He could have as easily said, “The rest is darkness.” The Prince of Denmark was no stranger to […]
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We just celebrated Holy Week and are now in the season of Easter, a time for celebration and new life. Yet not everyone is rejoicing. The sun may be shining, flowers blooming, but those dealing with depression find little reason for celebrating. They are stuck in somber Saturday, alone with Jesus in the tomb. Psalm […]
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Season of Gratitude Some people fear the dark. Not me. In darkness, while tossing and turning, I solve all the problems of the world. In the dark I see clearly exactly what to do to right the wrongs in my life. Everything seems so clear. Everything seems so simple. Everything falls into place–until I confront […]
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Easter – Season of New Life I’ve been told that it’s always darkest before dawn. I’ve been in the dark so long that I don’t know what dawn looks like. And yet, when I least expect it, Jesus calls me. He leads me. Down paths strewn with lilies, surrounded by the sound of alleluias, he […]
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Christmas – Season of Promise He remembered how grown-up he had felt when he attended his first midnight Mass. Before that they had always gone to the children’s Christmas Eve Mass. His brother and he had insisted they were no longer children, had put behind childish ways and were ready to attend midnight Mass at […]
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