I could hear the piston engines – their menacing murmur – long before I actually saw the planes the other evening.
Posts Tagged With: Menard Correctional Center
Today’s find: Squadron
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Tags: Battering ram, Biplane, Biplane Squadron, Biplanes, Gates of Hell, Gospel of Luke, Kairos Prison Ministry, Menard, Menard Correctional Center
Today’s find: O Key of David
For those in prison…and for those imprisoned by any deadly sins in their lives…we look with hope and expectation toward Jesus, the Key of David…in the fourth O Antiphon that’s prayed during these final days of Advent:
O Key of David,
opening the gates of God’s eternal Kingdom:
come and free the prisoners of darkness!
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Tags: Advent, Kairos Prison Ministry, Key of David, Menard, Menard Correctional Center, O Antiphons
Today’s find: Out of nothing
This is one of the things I find most remarkable about prison ministry: How it brings scripture alive.
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Tags: Benedictus, Canticle of Zechariah, Kairos Prison Ministry, Las Mañanitas, Menard Correctional Center
Today’s find: Drinking from the cup
Good intentions faced off with the power of sinfulness at our team meeting yesterday. And the outcome is not yet clear.
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Tags: Blessing Cup, Good intentions, Kairos Cookies, Kairos Prison Ministry, Menard Correctional Center, Psalm 33
Today’s find: Splendid & Stark
It’s been a study in contrasts, to say the least.
Friday evening, I spent immersed in breathtaking beauty. Saturday noon, I stepped into a world distinguished by scallops of razor wire.
Today’s find: Cellhouse Psalm
Every year on Ash Wednesday, we get reacquainted with the meaty portion of Psalm 51, proclaimed at Mass in response to the first reading.
It’s become a favorite of mine in the past couple of years—in no small part because Psalm 51 served as the trigger, more or less, for my blogs of found spirituality.
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Tags: Clean heart, Kairos Prison Ministry, Lent, Menard Correctional Center, Psalm 51, Steadfast spirit, Steadfast Spirit 2013
Today’s find: Moving time
We (Gerri and I) spent the early afternoon helping a dear elderly auntie prepare for her second household move in 13 months’ time.
Today’s find: Hard time
I’ll admit it: I’m a bit of a wimp. And there’s something about visiting men inside a maximum security prison which tends to remind me of that fact.
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Tags: Hard time, Kairos Prison Ministry, KPMI, Menard, Menard Correctional Center, Real Presence
Today’s find: Seeing is Believing, Part II
I wasn’t really looking for proof that ‘God is in the House’…but I got some anyway when we had the chance to complete our Kairos Weekend at Menard this past Saturday and Sunday.
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Tags: Chester, Forgiveness, Kairos Prison Ministry, Kingdom of God, Menard Correctional Center
Today’s find: Wayfinding
As a rule, I don’t need a GPS to get to Sunday Mass — but that wasn’t the case yesterday.
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Tags: Chester, IL, Kairos Prison Ministry, Menard Correctional Center, Ste. Genevieve
With Us Still 