My feeble brain had a tough time processing what I saw this morning when I strolled into the commons of the local middle school: Chairs, chairs, everywhere – some already in tidy rows; others stacked, pending placement. All of them, awaiting the crowds on Christmas Eve.
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Today’s find: Sanctuary (temporary)
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Tags: Advent, Advent 2018, Beyond All Names, Christmas Eve, God, Impermanent Pews, O Antiphons, O Radiant Dawn, Sacred Space, Sanctuary, Temporary Sanctuary
Today’s find: Trouble
A comforting aroma…fresh-baked cookies!…filled our kitchen yesterday afternoon. Mommy, Grandma and Big Brother stood just a few feet away, stirring the next batch. Gramps was holding him snug, in a firm and loving embrace.
Still, somehow, little Jonah concluded that everything was not right with his world. Quicker than you can say “ginger snap,” he started going all-Ray-LaMontagne on me.
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Tags: Advent, Advent 2018, Canticle of Zechariah, Christmas Cookies, O Antiphons, O Root of Jesse, Trouble, Zechariah
Today’s find: Plumbing the generations
It occurs to me that faucet repairs, like salvation history, tend to require a lot of manpower.
At least, that’s the legacy I seem to have received from my father.
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Tags: Advent, Advent 2018, DIY, Faucet repair, Genealogy of Jesus, O Antiphons, O Wisdom, Plumbing, Torque Wrench
Today’s find: Party time
I know for a fact that at one time in their lives, these ladies would have started the party at 10:30 PM…not be wrapping it up at that hour.
Not that I’m complaining.
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Tags: Christmas Cookie Exchange, Cookie Exchange, Cookie Party, Gaudete, Gaudete Sunday, Isaiah, Isaiah 12, Sirach, Third Sunday of Advent
Today’s (#TBT) find: Flannery
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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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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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
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