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Posted in main on Feb 8th, 2012
Anyone who knows me is not surprised that I find the current English mass translation to be rather poor. In general the translation seems poor, cumbersome and does not invoke a sense of beauty or better understanding of what we celebrate. I find it distancing. There is an exception: one of the responses I learned, [...]
Posted in main on Dec 20th, 2011
Today’s gospel is one of those where the angel Gabriel comes to Mary: The angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph, of the house of David, and the virgin’s name was Mary. And coming to her, he said, “Hail, full of [...]
Posted in main on Jul 4th, 2011
There is a hole in my existence that opens up on occasion and sends me to a deep place. This place often strikes me as dark, but not always. We drove in to New England a couple of days ago. That empty space opened up in me. It felt something like the way I feel [...]
Posted in main on Mar 21st, 2011
Or Discerning when the answer to “Here I am Lord. Is it I Lord?” is “Not you, not now.” I’m just back from being a part of the team for a Women’s Cursillo Weekend. The spring weekends in this diocese are held over at the Blessed Trinity Shrine Retreat which is a spot that I [...]
Have you ever heard a “born-again” Christian refer to being “convicted”? I’ve spend some time thinking about that phrasing. So often it is taken to mean that Jesus, as judge and jury has taken someone into a court of law, and tried that person and found that person “guilty.” An unloving, uncharitable, hard-line image, to [...]
