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Come to the Well
Friends,Way back in the late 1970’s I started writing letters with a friend. This was, to me a new experience, and I’m sure my friend was wildly confused by some of my answers. I did think that my...
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Word Play
When you have a chance listen to Season 14 Episode 1 of the Abiding Together Podcast. This is their Word of the Year episode, it is beautiful. In part because of how Michelle, Heather and Sr Miriam...
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On the Eve of Lent
Oh this morning the words are hilarious. I desire to pull several things together that seem disparate yet coherent. And I suspect I’ll be working backwards this morning. A couple of friends and I use...
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Rejecting Connection
Happy Easter! Christ is Risen, Alleluia. Apparently I took a blogging break during Lent. It was, as I’ve read here and there, something of a Lenty Lent. When the Holy Spirit prompts you to go a bit...
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About this time two years ago I was working my way through Ignatian Prayer with Fr Timothy Gallagher, OMV on the Hallow app, and actually repeated it as I found it so lovely. Fr Gallagher has come up...
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When Thoughts Come Crashing Like Waves
Listening to Fr Mike’s Homily the title for something else came to mind. Giver, Gift, Gifting will become a series based on Pope St. John Paul II’s On the Dignity and Vocation of Woman. Yeah I know...
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One of my favorite places is in the hammock in the backyard, sometimes reading, sometimes dozing. I would have stayed out a bit longer this morning except that the temps and humidity drove me inside....
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Sometimes prayer sounds like
I am currently visiting family in Maine until Tuesday. The time is filled with laughter and some twinges of sadness and new to me experiences and some delightful time on my own. For the first time in...
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Blessed are they who Mourn
I took a trip to Maine to visit family and friends a few weeks ago. Surprisingly there were few photos taken. I did take a selfie at the Desert of Maine. While I grew up less than an hour from there...
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Aha!
Sundays begin with Fr Mike ‘s and Bishop Barron’s homilies. (Sunday Readings) This week Fr Mike focuses on rest and gives some good insight into what rest can look like. As he started the homily I had...
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The Grace of Through
Welcome to the Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Fr Mike Schmitz Homily I deeply appreciate both the readings of this Eighteenth Sunday and Fr Mike’s homily. As he read the Gospel Jesus’ words rang...
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