Things got a little tight in our family room yesterday.
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Today’s find: Making room
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Today’s find: Gloom, dispelled
It wasn’t a “driving” rain exactly. More like “steady,” the winds mercifully silent as we made our wet way along Front Street for the four-minute walk from the prison’s entry house to the chapel deep inside the grounds yesterday.
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Today’s find: The Star of Christmas
Ever notice? This time of year, the stars seem especially bright. It’s almost as if the sky is clearer…and the heavens are closer to earth… than they are in the summertime.
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Today’s find: Head start
It’s probably not great form for a Catholic blogger to admit this, but for many years, I harbored a bit of a grudge against Mary.
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Today’s find: Master of disguise
In today’s gospel reading, we hear people saying of Jesus, ‘The Devil made him do it.’
That’s a loose translation, of course: The conversation in question preceded Flip Wilson’s famous comedy routine by about 2,000 years.
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