Something tells me Flannery O’Connor would have registered a complaint, had she been with us at Mass today (just as she might have a couple of years ago, when I originally floated this post).
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Today’s (#TBT) find: Flannery
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Tags: Advent, Flannery O'Connor, It Is Well, Kristene DiMarco, Maranatha, Prophet, The Violent Bear It Away
Today’s find: Snap!
I was trying to be helpful – really, I was, in my “Gramps” sort of way. Instead, I wound up setting off a mini-crisis.
Or perhaps I should say “sitting off.”
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Tags: Baptism, Baptismal Candle, Beeswax, Grandson Jonah, Jonah Ambrose, Second Sunday of Advent, Snap
Today’s find: Road trip
Well, at least one-in-five of us left happy. That would be my cousin’s son, Lucas, who watched his SIU Salukis put a whuppin’ on our SLU Billikens in Carbondale the other night.
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Tags: Advent, Carbondale, Marana tha!, Maranatha, Pinckneyville, Psalm 126, Road Trip, Second Sunday of Advent, SIU Salukis, SLU Billikens
Today’s find: Jam time
A beautiful sight—to gaze upon Midtown St. Louis, all aglow with expectation in the early hours of a December evening.
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Tags: Advent, Fabulous Fox, First Sunday of Advent, Jeremiah, Jesuit Hall, Midtown St. Louis, Powell Hall, Prophet Jeremiah
Today’s find: Dominion
Didn’t realize it at the time, but I actually got to celebrate the feast of Christ the King a little early this year.
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Tags: ASC, Christ The King, Dominion, Kairos Prison Ministry, Ruma, Ruma Motherhouse
Today’s find: Cornucopia
There’s nothing quite like doing a short stretch in prison…to sharpen one’s desire to give thanks.
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Tags: Cookies For Kairos, Cornucopia, Kairos Prison Ministry, Menard 15, Menard Correctional Center, Mercy, Thanksgiving
Today’s find: Living the 4th
One of the oddest things, the most curious blessings, of a Kairos Prison Retreat is the Fourth Day experience.
As team members, there’s nothing we can do to encourage our new brothers in Christ, beyond praying for them, as they begin (or continue) their walks with the Lord.
That’s much different than what happens with other Cursillo-based retreats. It leaves a bit of a hole in our hearts…
…our GRATEFUL hearts…for having had the chance to bear witness to the Good News, all weekend long inside Menard.
Alleluia!
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Today’s find: Teamwork
The long and the short of it is…it’s been a great retreat so far, thanks in no small part to the tireless efforts of teammates like Brian (one of our newest Kairos volunteers) and Roy (one of our most experienced).
Please keep up the prayers for Menard #15, as we work — under the guidance of the Holy Spirit– toward a glorious Fourth Day!
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Today’s find: Blessed assurance
The first two days of this Kairos Weekend have been filled with “strange blessings”. Almost nothing has gone exactly according to “our” plans…but we keep showing up, and the Holy Spirit keeps finding us “a way where there is no way” during Menard #15.
We praise and thank You for that blessed assurance, Most Holy One!
And with Your help, we will report for duty again today!
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With Us Still 