The Sacrament of Home
That’s funny title… and it is only a starting point for my thoughts. This morning I was reading my friend Susan’s reflection, Home in the Heart of Jesus, on her blog, Creo en Dios. She reflected on how sad it made her to know that the place that represents her…
Transformation / Transfiguration
If a teacher would bring up these two terms, I fear the question would be: Contrast and compare transfiguration and transformation. They are different, yes, but, it seems also very intertwined. And, they’ve been on my radar for a couple of days. Saturday night,…
Seek and Ye Shall Find
“Seek and ye shall find” pretty much sums up today’s gospel reading. The questions for me boil down to: What am I seeking? How will I accept what I might find? I think of my husband’s approach to so many things: Don’t ask questions when…
Sign
Crossing O’Neal Bridge the welcoming sign filling up the words “Coca Cola” fill, flash, drain fill, flash, drain Welcome! You are approaching home… “Coca Cola” fill, flash, drain It seemed a forever ride in the big back seat from…
Who Knew? Or encountering God in strange places
I read the readings before mass this morning. I listened to them again. I listened as [Fr.] Bruce reflected on them, and how each represented an encounter with God that made a permanent change in the person who had the encounter. Isaiah — now he sees the Lord in…