Have we been blessed by the papacy of Francis, or what?
Blessed as a Church…blessed as the people of God…blessed as individuals, striving to know how the Holy One desires to work in our lives.
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Today’s find: Wordless wisdom
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Tags: Jorge Bergoglio, Pope Francis, Wordless Wisdom
Today’s find: Bad to the Bone
I had to smile at the irony: The other day, even as Jesus became present to us in the Eucharist, he was greeted with the unmistakable strains of a blues-rock classic – George Thorogood’s ‘Bad to the Bone.’
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Tags: Bad to the Bone, George Thorogood, Lent, Ringtone, temptation
Sunday Snippets
The Catholic bloggers are out in force this week over at Rann’s place, as Lent begins. Check out this link if you’d like to see what’s on their minds and in their hearts during the early days of this holy season.
As for my own blog posts in recent days, I’ve found a lot to write about in and around my church community– from the stray balloons that provided a reminder that Lent was near; to the impact of the Ash Wednesday liturgy on my heart; to the lesson I took from a day of simple meals; and leading yesterday to a few reflections on our habits of holiness.
Let us pause now…to remember that we are in the presence of the Holy One.
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Today’s find: Pew with a view
Things were pretty much a red-hot mess at the beginning of Mass yesterday morning.
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Tags: Daily Mass, Forty Days, Holiness Habits, Isaiah, Lent, Resolutions
Today’s find: Hunger
They weren’t exactly terms of endearment, the first words my wife—my Paradise Partner—spoke to me this morning: ‘I’m hungry,’ she said. But I took no offense, because frankly, I resembled that remark.
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Tags: Ash Wednesday, Fasting, Hunger, Lent
Today’s find: Beginning…with the end in sight.
The ashes were all around me at Mass this morning, and yet I found myself drawn to a different word in the liturgy.
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Tags: Ash Wednesday, Desert, Joy, Lent
Today’s find: Mylar and My Lenten Heart
The mylar balloons have been there for a couple of weeks now…bumping up against the beams, in the highest reaches of our church building — a good 50 feet or so from the floor.
Out of reach…up against the rafters.
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Tags: Isaiah, Lent, Mylar
Today’s find: Unstained
Sometimes, you notice the oddest things when you read scripture aloud.
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Tags: 1 Corinthians, Galatians, In Christ, Letter of St. James, Romans, Unstained
Sunday Snippets
How about heading with me over to Rann’s place, to catch up on some thoughts from other Catholic bloggers?
This week’s Question of the Week at Sunday Snippets — name a favorite book and tell us what you like about it — reminded me that I haven’t updated the list of “favorite books” on my company website for a long, long time. A resolution perhaps for the upcoming week? On a related note: I responded to a tip by “requesting” a copy of Michael O’Brien’s The Island of the World from the library this week…and was dismayed to discover that it runs nearly 1,000 pages long. A bit ambitious for a two-week library loan, I’m thinking. But I may very well add it to my Amazon.com wish list!
As for my blog posts this week: I recounted the circumstances around a little dance I did inside a prison last Saturday; and I reflected on benefiting from wisdom found in Ezekiel in mulling over my visceral response to one of the great issues of the day.
Let us pause now…to remember that we are in the presence of the Holy One.
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Tags: Catholic Bloggers, Ezekiel, Kairos Prison Ministry
Today’s find: Two sticks
I came thisclose to ripping a page out of my daily devotional this morning.
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Tags: Ezekiel, Give Us This Day, global warming, settled science
With Us Still 