The COVID vaccine tends to make beggars of us all – at least in my state of residence, and in my age-bracket.
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Today’s find: Seeking wellness
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Tags: Covid vaccine, Covid-19, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Lent 2021, Memento Mori, Pfizer vaccine, Seeking wellness
Today’s find: Unclogging
Patience is a virtue, they say. But apparently NOT when one is waiting for a bathroom sink to drain.
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Tags: Cleansing of the Temple, Lent 2021, Plumbing, Third Sunday in Lent, Third Sunday of Lent, Unclog, Unclogged, Unclogging
Today’s find: Jerome
Meditating on the apostles’ mountaintop experience, I keep finding myself being drawn underground – to the writing grotto of St. Jerome in Bethlehem.
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Tags: Hieronymus, Memento Mori, Second Sunday of Lent, St. Jerome, Transfiguration
Today’s find: Driven
A couple of times over the past 10 years, I have been “driven out into the desert.”
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Tags: 40 days, Desert, First Sunday of Lent, Judean Desert, Lent 2021, Memento Mori, Monument Valley
Today’s find: HumbLent
The calendar said it was “Mardi Gras” as the Billlikens took to the court versus LaSalle last night. But all in all, Chaifetz Arena seemed to have more of an “Ash Wednesday” vibe going throughout the game.
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Tags: Ash Wednesday, Ashes, Billiken Basketball, Chaifetz Arena, COVID Pandemic, Lent 2021, SLU Billikens
Today’s find: Ordinary Witness
Things were a bit different at our men’s faith-sharing group this week: Ron Peters was with us only in spirit.
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Tags: 1 Corinthians, ACTS Retreat, ACTS Retreats, Foster Parents, Imitation of Christ, Ron Peters, Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Witness
Today’s find: OT
Perhaps a bit to my Sweetie’s regret, I’m having a little trouble making the hand-off of our handsome Golf League Trophy.
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Tags: 2020 Golf League Champions, 5th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Golf League, OT, St. Joe Golf League
Today’s find: Plastics & humility
My fancy new dual-body tumbling composter, I notice, is constructed primarily of plastic. This is, in a sense, a vinyl-clad irony: In an attempt to reduce my environmental footprint, my go-to tool has created demand for yet more plastic.
Which is to say, life is complicated.
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Tags: End times, Jonah, Plastics, Prophet Jonah, Third Sunday of Ordinary Time
Today’s find: Thunder
I must have a lot of time on my hands these days, because every once in a while…I find myself wondering why Jesus chose Galilee as headquarters for his public ministry.
Sure, Galilee is a pleasant enough place (as backwaters go). But the world brims with far more beautiful settings. So why not pick one of them as “home base”?
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Tags: Baptism of Jesus, Baptism of the Lord, Jordan River, River Jordan, Sea of Galilee, Thunder
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