ReEntry
In the past week, I've spent time at the beach, in the Magic Kingdom, at the zoo and then dwelling on holy ground at Holy Trinity (Alabama) where I was on the team for a women's Cursillo. Now, for at least the next week or so, in my current "real world" of working at...
Lent: day 1
It's one of THOSE days -- where all the negative keeps pushing to the surface. All those issues I thought I had dealt with and put down keep trying to get back on board. It's not like I can say I'm being persecuted for righteousness sake -- that would be a lie. That...
Conversation
In her post this morning, Maintaining Wide Boundaries, Susan reflects on the views of an Episcopal bishop on the belief that it is better to have a few heretics in church than to push people out. The goal is to keep people in dialogue and therefore keep alive the...
Who gets results?
Todays gospel (Mark 7:24-30) has always bothered me. It relates the story of a gentile woman, a mother, who begs Jesus to banish the unclean spirit from her daughter. And Jesus answers, initially, that it's not right to give the food for the children to the dogs....
Letting go…
Two weeks ago, I traded in the Miata for a far more practical, roomy Venza. I can now tote both my guitar and a passenger... I can handle more than a single passenger... it's quiet inside (convertibles are not very quiet)... I can use my iPod in the car. And yet,...
God Takes the First Step
Yesterday's readings (5th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Isaiah 6:1-2.3-8, First Corinthians 15:1-11, Luke 5:1-11) reinforced for me the understanding that God takes the first step. Fr. Jack wandered into the memories, for Cradle Catholics, of confession as a child: 7 year...
In every moment
Yesterday I went home at lunchtime not feeling great. Thought I'd lie down and nap for a few minutes. How did that work? I woke up 3 hours later, still not feeling so great. As I would wake up briefly at intervals yesterday, I found these words always rolling through...
Out of Egypt
I just finished Anne Rice's Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt a couple of days ago. An interesting read. I'm not sure I would have derived the same story were I writing a fictional recollection of this period of the life of Jesus of Nazareth, but she does a wonderful job...
New Wine Skins
I think I need a new wine skin. As I move through this time of transition (changed cars, change from full-time employee to retiree/self employed, grandmother-to-be again, shifts in friendships) the patches on this old cloak, and this old wine skin are getting rather...
Ground Hog Day
I haven't checked to see if TNT or TBS is running the movie "Ground Hog Day" 24x7 - or until we get it right - but this is the day. It's halfway between the Winter Solstice and the Spring Equinox. It's the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, as well. In the movie,...
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North American Vincentian Family Gathering
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The 2023 North American Vincentian Family Gathering will be held October 26-29 at DePaul University in Chicago, IL. The theme is Harmony in Diversity: Working for Social Justice and Fostering a Culture of Encounter through the Arts via a community-based, intergenerational experience of creativity and the arts to build up together a culture of encounter which embraces diversity in harmony.
More information here: HARMONY IN DIVERSITY