We’re making a little progress, my brothers and I, in the effort to help our Mom downsize from the home of our youth. Yesterday, our clean-out day unearthed a front-page treasure that had been squirreled away in a steamer trunk for the past 47 years or so.
Today’s find: Moonshot
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Tags: Abraham, Apollo 11, Letter to the Hebrews, Moonshot, Neil Armstrong
Today’s find: Going for it
Standing over the shot last Saturday afternoon, I think I was feeling a little like Peter must have felt when Jesus told him to step out of the boat.
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Tags: 5-Iron, Bogey, Boone Valley Golf Club, Discipleship, Gospel of Matthew, Par, Walking on Water
Today’s find: Bulwark
Now here’s something I hadn’t heard in a LONG time: We sang ‘A Mighty Fortress’ as our recessional song at Mass today. I’ve long appreciated the lyrical imagery of the hymn, made all the more effective by its majestic melody.
Having just returned from one of the world’s most castellated regions, though, I couldn’t help but be struck by the irony of Martin Luther’s words.
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Tags: A Mighty Fortress, Bulwark, Colossians, Loch Ness, Martin Luther, Scotland, Trebuchet, Urquhart Castle
Today’s find: Ascent
It matters a lot, the direction from which you approach Mamore Gap on the Inishowen Peninsula in Ireland.
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Tags: Amazing Grace, Inishowen Peninsula, Ireland, John Newton, Lough Swilly, Mamore Gap, Mary Magdalene, St. Egney
Today’s find: Slieve League
It’s a rare thing when a 2,000-foot precipice catches you by surprise. A rare, beautiful thing.
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Tags: Cliffs of Moher, County Donegal, Ireland, Martha and Mary, sliabh liag, Slieve League
Today’s find: Packing List
Counter-space has become a rare commodity at our place in recent weeks.
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Tags: 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time, 72 disciples, Counter space, Gospel of Luke, Names written in heaven, Packing List
Today’s find: Encrusted
It takes a fair amount of power to wash away 50 years’ worth of grime.
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Tags: 1 Kings, 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time, 4000 PSI, Brotherly love, Elisha, Gospel of Matthew, Kingdom of God, loyalty, Power Washer
Today’s find: Mantle
Our son Chris marks the second anniversary of his ordination today. And to celebrate, he’s moving from Kansas City to Dallas…where he’ll begin a brand new ministry at a Jesuit retreat center.
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Tags: 2 Kings, Elijah, Elisha, Jesuit Ordinations, Mantle, Ordination, Religious vocation, Vocations
Today’s find: Mercy, anon
It’s left me puzzled since mid-week: Who tucked a $5 bill under my windshield wiper in the parking lot outside the local Breadco the other day? And why?
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Tags: 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Luke, Mercy, Shakespeare in the Park
Today’s find: Super-sub
Perhaps the feast day simply snuck up on us. Whatever the reason, we experienced a Lectionary malfunction at the early Mass today. The page was set to a Friday in Ordinary time—not to the readings prescribed for the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus –and our lector initially began proclaiming a passage from 2 Timothy, instead of Ezekiel.
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Tags: Ezekiel, Give Us This Day, Good Shepherd, Lectionary, Romans 5, Sacred Heart, Sacred Heart of Jesus
With Us Still 