If you’d asked me at the time of their birth, I’d have been pleased to think that one day my children would become icons.
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Today’s find: Numbers game
At times, some of the holy ones in our midst are inclined to focus on scarcity. Today, we celebrate a feast that counters this point of view. It seems to say to them, ‘Not so fast!’
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Tags: All Saints Day, Carmel Mission, Feast of All Saints, San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo Mission
Today’s find: Indelible
Any properly catechized Catholic will tell you there are seven sacraments. I’m thinking of starting a movement for the Church to recognize an eighth (or at least, perhaps, a “Seven.A”)—one called parenthood.
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Tags: Chris Schroeder S.J., Diaconate ordination 2013, Jesuit, Santa Clara University, Society of Jesus
Today’s find: Redwoods
If you try to take a photo of a giant redwood using conventional equipment, you discover very quickly that you’re barking up the wrong tree.
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Tags: California, Humboldt State Park, Redwoods
Today’s find: Waves, crashing
A walk on the beach can help you develop a whole new appreciation of scripture.
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Tags: ocean waves, Psalm 18, Sonoma Coast State Park
Today’s find: Shut-down
Yosemite is beautiful this time of year. Or so I hear.
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Tags: Acts of the Apostles, Government Shut-down, St. Paul, Yosemite, Yosemite National Park
Today’s find: Master of disguise
In today’s gospel reading, we hear people saying of Jesus, ‘The Devil made him do it.’
That’s a loose translation, of course: The conversation in question preceded Flip Wilson’s famous comedy routine by about 2,000 years.
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Tags: Beelzebul, Flip Wilson, James Martin S.J., Jesus, Philippians, St. Ignatius Loyola, The Spiritual Exercises, Time magazine
Today’s find: Habakkuk
Apparently, I’ve got something in common with the prophet Habakkuk.
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Tags: Guardian Angels, Habakkuk, Jessica Powers
Today’s find: Rubble. Blessed rubble.
If you live long enough, chances are many of the things you hold dear will eventually crumble before your eyes. And there can be a profound blessing in that rubble.
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Tags: Destruction of the Temple, Haggai, Rubble, Temple, Wailing Wall
Today’s find: Neophytes
We marked the feast of St. Matthew on Saturday, and reportedly, that title – ‘saint’ – would have surprised most of the people from polite society who knew the man in his day.
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Tags: Conversion of St. Matthew, St. Bede, St. Matthew, Venerable Bede
With Us Still 