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Ever Forget an Important Anniversary?
If I were to ask you today, “which of you knows the exact date of your baptism?” I do not think there would be too many hands raised….
Yet, it is the day on which we were saved, it is the day on which we became children of God.
Magi School for Seekers – Open Enrollment
Anyone seeking health insurance or entrance into a school knows the term “open enrollment”. Triggered by a Pope Francis’ homily on the feast of the Epiphany, I played with the idea of the Magi returning home and offering free instruction to anyone wanting to make th…
Great Idea! … But!
VIrtually no one thought it was a good idea for Pope Francis to go to Iraq. A great idea… BUT!
Lost Your Identity?
When we lose proof of who we are or memories of the joys and sorrows of our lives, something very precious is gone.
A Mother Watches Her Child Suffer
There is a special pain that cuts through the hearts of mothers especially, but fathers also, as they see their child suffer. There is so much more to Mary’s grief than the final stage so masterfully captured in Michelangelo’s Pieta.
Women, Sigmund Freud, Prof. Higgins, and… St Vincent DePaul?
Elizabeth Simcoe is called the “Parish Life Director”. She stands in a tradition going back 2000 years. The notion of the priesthood as we know it today had not yet developed.
What’s Happening With the Mail?
Another kind of Gmail… God’s mail. That sent me off through the corridors of postal language. Who delivers God’s mail? Jesus himself was the ultimate mail from God! He was also God’s personally chosen delivery person!
“I Can’t Do Everything!”
I need to remember that while I can’t do everything, I must do something.
Ever Given Up On a Dream?
Pope Francis, in “Envisioning and engendering an Open World”, presents a world where we move beyond the original fault of self-centeredness to recognizing the worth of every human person.
Seeing Beyond My Nose
“Move us to create healthier societies and a more dignified world, a world without hunger, poverty, violence and war. May our hearts be open to all the peoples and nations of the earth.”
Who Does Prayer Change? God or Us?
Real love is dangerous. Real prayer is transformative for the pray-er. Only then can the pray-er bring transformation. Prayer is movement. Let this Lent be a time when prayer transforms you. Set your prayer in motion!
This Lent – Where Ya Going?
In his Lenten letter, Pope Francis reminds us that Lent is a journey to Easter. At the beginning of Lent, we have an opportunity to think about where we are heading on the journey of our life.