The Angel Gabriel
This morning my husband came out with an interesting take on the Angel Gabriel. Yesterday, the Gospel reading told the story of Zechariah being struck silent when he did questioned the idea that his wife Elizabeth would finally conceive and bear a child. Today, the...
Doll babies
Did you ever wonder?... When you give a toddler a baby doll Why it is that the first thing to be done It to remove the clothes - all the clothes Naked baby - just baby No clothes in the way Just baby I wonder why? Is it because they still remember something we are...
Rainy Day Sunset
I was browsing through some old stuff on my other site, and found some of my poetry. Rainy Day Sunset The fiery orange beach ball slips slowly lower on the grey horizon leading the orange-pink laced remnant of pale grey into oblivion
Guadalupe
Today is the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe - Patroness of the Americas... And our little bilingual Parish will celebrate in style. The church is decorated with with rosies and the very anglo, fair Mary that usually positions herself near the front of the church has...
Immaculate Conception
[Note:It's easy to remember my niece's birthday as she shares it with the Feast of the Immaculate Conception...] This a season of Mary as well as of the coming of Jesus. It's rather like we need to see what came before to get to the gift of the baby Jesus. And so,...
Thanksgiving – delayed reaction
On Thanksgiving Day I opened my email to find a note from my husband's youngest cousin. It was a blessing that I was unaware of what was going on until it was mostly over. She and her fiance were staying on the 15th floor of the Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai when the...
Getting in Touch with my Inner Ogre
I know I'm late to the party -- I only discovered Shrek this fall, and only then because of my granddaughter. And now, the story has caught my imagination. I watch as Fiona wrestles with the idea that the ogre might be her true form instead of the princess... that...
Flash back
November 22 - St. Cecilia's feast day. I'm a church musician and I have visited the catacombs outside of Rome where Cecilia died. I pray not to die a martyr's death, but I also know that music and singing stand a good chance of being a comfort to me whenever God calls...
Truly Alive? Probably not
Yesterday was the first day in 3 weeks that I didn't even think about taking something to make me feel more comfortable in the afternoon... (I had some surgery a little over 3 weeks ago). I'm off the antibiotics, and the stitches, for the most part seem to be healing....
Talents
Sunday's reading was the parable about the talents -- you know, the one where the one who gets many makes more and the schmuck who only gets one buries it. The one who makes more gets praise, the one who buries it and returns no more than what is given is chastised...
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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