As one liturgical year ends and another begins, the Lectionary seems to strike a redundant note.
Today’s find: Firm
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Tags: Advent, Firm, First Sunday of Advent, Fretting, God With Us, Gospel of Mark, Hope, kenosis, Lectionary, Liturgical Year
Today’s find: Soup
Encountered a little hiccup on the path toward the savory pot of turkey soup I had envisioned.
When I pulled open the produce drawer, it was practically empty: No celery. No carrots. And only the lame remnants of a Vidalia sweet onion. (It had seen better days.)
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Tags: Christ The King, Essential Ingredients, Feast of Christ The King, Matthew 25, Soup, Turkey Soup
Today’s find: Outsider
I’ve been listening to political promises long enough to know better. Still, this time of year tends to stir up in me a particular angst over one such promise in particular.
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Tags: ACA Open Enrollment, Affordable Care Act, Five foolish virgins, Five wise virgins, Healthcare.gov, Outsider, Patient Trust
Today’s find: Father Fix-It
I guess I wasn’t overly surprised at the crowd that showed up for the “social justice” lecture series at Saint Louis University the other day. The speaker, Fr. Gregory Boyle S.J., is a bit of a rock star as Jesuits go – the author of a New York Times bestseller, Tattoos On The Heart.
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Tags: Catholic Charities of St. Louis, Homeboy Industries, Lally Lecture, SLU, Social Justice, Tattoos On The Heart
Today’s find: Weedless – Quincentenary reflection
I offer a throwback post on this date, to mark the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s posting of his 95 theses…a reflection I wrote earlier this year after encountering a curious garden spot in northwestern Ohio.
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The beautiful flower bed saddened me enormously…and instantaneously.
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Tags: Germany, Luther's 95 theses, Lutheran Reformation, Quincentenary, Wittenburg
Today’s find: Wet-rot
We discovered a nasty surprise as our deck-replacement project got under way recently. About mid-afternoon, the contractor tapped on the back door (never a good sign!) and asked us to come outside and take a look.
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Tags: Band Board, Deck project, Deck replacement, Evergrain, Greatest Commandment, Lutheran Reformation, Romans, Rot, wet-rot
Today’s find: Timekeeper
Things did not begin auspiciously for me on Day One of our recent ACTS retreat.
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Tags: ACTS Retreat, ACTS Retreats, Hope House Men's Choir, Timekeeper, Vigilant, vigiliance, You Can't Hurry My God
Today’s find: Extra-ordinary
As I settled in to say my ‘regular’ morning prayer today, I realized that I hadn’t done so for the past several days.
Odd, but guiltless, this realization. You see, those days were spent at a retreat center…where I was serving on team for our parish’s fall ACTS Retreat.
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Tags: ACTS Retreat, Extra-ordinary, John XXIII, Routine, Vatican II
With Us Still 