The tree’s been there every bit of 35 years, maybe all of 41 – as long as our eldest son has been alive, I thought. So why did it seem as if it had been planted for just this moment?
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Today’s find: Beyond
One widely-reported benefit of the recent shelter-in-place orders has been the chance to do some deep cleaning. Which, at our house, turned up an entirely unexpected Paschal blessing.
Today’s find: Pentecost / Paschal Meditation
Pentecost looms. Which means it’s been 50 days since I heard the words uttered near the beginning of the Easter Vigil Mass…and still, I can’t get them out of my mind.
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Tags: Christ Redeemer, Cristo Redentor, Easter Season, Easter Vigil, Jubliee of Mercy, Paschal Mystery, Pentecost, Year of Mercy
Today’s find: Witness
There are no bystanders at the Easter Vigil. Like the new fire itself, we all tend to become ‘fully involved.’
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Tags: Alpha and Omega, Baptism, Easter, Easter Vigil, Easter Witness
Today’s find: Conversion
If you’re a cradle Catholic (like me), I want to say that you really haven’t lived until you’ve seen a grown man get doused with the waters of baptism at the Easter Vigil.
By which I mean: You probably don’t have a deep, bone-rattling, knee-knocking sense of the work that the Holy Spirit wants to do in you…and in every baptized Christian.
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Tags: Baptism, Easter Vigil, Holy Saturday, RCIA, Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults
Good News for Lent…or any season of the year!
John Schroeder
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