The Cardinal Archbishop of Toronto took me to task last evening – with an able assist from the prophet Hosea at this morning’s Mass.
Today’s find: Assyria, Trump, Hillary & Campion
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Tags: Apocalypse, Campion, Edmund Campion, Hillary, SLU, Trump
Today’s find: Leap Day
A precocious walker, our granddaughter Hannah has been toddling (and dashing) about upright for well over a year now…so it caught me by surprise when she resorted to crawling for a brief spell this morning.
Ironic: On Leap Day, She-Of-Boundless-Energy reverts to hands-and-knees.
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Tags: Leap Day, Leap Day 2016, Lent 2016, Ordinary Day, Psalm 42, Routine
Today’s find: Approaching
Leroy came in to work on his day off, and it made all the difference for me.
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Tags: Arizona, Burning Bush, Exodus, Monument Valley, Moses, Mount Horeb, Samaritan woman, Woman at the Well
Today’s find: Scalia
As I was leaving Mass yesterday, a dear friend asked if I’d seen the television coverage of Saturday’s funeral Mass for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
I thought it was an odd question.
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Tags: Blogosphere, Communion of Saints, Justice Scalia, Mass, Rev. Paul Scalia, Scalia
Today’s find: Special
Do you think maybe the rest of the Twelve might have been jealous when they heard the story Peter, James and John had to tell about the Transfiguration?
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Tags: Beloved, Gospel of Luke, James and John, Lent 2016, Peter, Second Sunday of Lent, Self Denial, Special, Transfiguration
Today’s find: Digestion
We heard “Act Two” from the story of the prophet Jonah at Mass today – a tale that inevitably reminds me of “Act One”…in which the reluctant missionary finds himself residing in the belly of a whale.
Maybe it’s because I’ve reached the stage in life when such things can no longer be taken for granted, but I’ve long thought that a balky digestive system is an overlooked grace in Jonah’s life.
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Tags: Aletia, Digestion, Jonah, Lent, Lent 2016, St. Thomas More, Stomach Acid
Today’s find: The Nylons
As pop music groups go, you might think ‘The Temptations’ might offer the best cultural link to the gospel for the First Sunday of Lent. But for my money, it’s ‘The Nylons’.
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Tags: First Sunday of Lent, Gospel of Luke, Lord of the Cosmos, Prince of Darkness, temptation, The Nylons, The Temptations
Today’s find: Halls of heaven
‘Hmmm…that’s different,’ I thought this morning as our Pastor began the Eucharistic Prayer at daily Mass.
And indeed, it was: He chose one of the Reconciliation versions – well suited for these early days of Lent.
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Tags: Eucharistic Prayer for Reconciliation, Halls of Heaven, Lent, Lent 2016
Today’s find: Ashes
‘Fished my wish’ at Mass this morning.
Some background: I was suitably amused the other day to discover @BillDonahy’s ‘Catholic Guide To Ashes’ on the Twittersphere. Tickled enough, in fact, to retweet his graphic – along with a note that I most often experience ‘The Blob’ when the ashes are imposed.
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Tags: Ash Wednesday, Ashes, Catholic Guide To Ashes, Lent, Lent 2016, Psalm 51, Steadfast spirit
Today’s find: ‘Super Bowl L’ – for ‘Lost Interest’
In some circles, I’ve noticed, people tend to give you strange looks when you mention that you’re not planning to watch the Super Bowl.
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Tags: fish story, NFL, Super Bowl 50, Super Bowl L, The Jesuit Post
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