‘Come with thy grace…and heavenly aid / to fill the hearts which Thou hast made…’
Today’s find: The apostrophe.
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Tags: Catherine de Heuck Doherty, Come Holy Ghost, Holy Spirit, Madonna House, Pentecost
Today’s find: Liminal days.
These are dangerous days for the faithful. Liminal days…days spent on the threshold of Pentecost.
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Tags: ACTS Missions, ACTS Retreats, Cursillo, Holy Spirit, Kairos Prison Ministry, Pentecost
Today’s find: Commencements
Did you know that the country of Indonesia spans four time zones? I had no idea. No clue, really, until I met Susi G. – a friend my daughter made during their just-completed graduate studies at SIU-Edwardsville.
Susi & Ellen, sporting their Master’s hoods.
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Tags: A Pilgrim's Walk, Franciscan Missionaries of Mary, ghost peppers, Indonesia, SIU-Edwardsville
Today’s find: A mother’s love
Today’s find: A mother’s love
Tom and Ray Magliozzi got scolded on the air by their mother yesterday.
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Tags: Car Talk, Kairos Prison Ministry, Mother's Day, Tappet Brothers, Tom and Ray Magliozzi
Today’s find: Backwater blessings
Don’t know about you, but I’ve always wondered why there isn’t a ‘Letter of St. Paul to the Athenians.’
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Tags: Athens, Backwater, Colossians, Des Moines, Galatians, Sinatra New York, St. Paul
Today’s find: Splash!
I stepped into an enormous puddle on the way to church early Friday morning.
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Tags: Ignatius of Loyola, King's House Retreat Center, Spiritual Exercises
Today’s find: Dogwoods
Our dogwoods are in full bloom this week. And that means different things, on different trees.
Big Daddy Dogwood
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Tags: Dogwood, Gerard Manley Hopkins, I Am The Vine, Spring, Taproot, Vine
Today’s find: Lock-down.
It was an other-worldly experience, getting through Security at a client’s corporate campus yesterday.
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Tags: ACTS Retreats, Kairos Prison Ministry, Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen, Paul Robeson
Today’s find: Prophets
Have you ever met a real, live prophet? I did, just a little over a decade ago.
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Tags: ACTS Missions, ACTS Missions St. Louis, ACTS Retreats, Prophet, Prophets
Today’s find: A Great Amen.
A friend once remarked, ‘When you go to Mass every day, you see things you don’t see every day.’
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Tags: David Kauffman, Doxology, Good for the Soul Music, Great Amen, Mass of Renewal, Scott Hahn, The Lamb's Supper, William Gokelman
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