New Catholics - Good Friday service has a collection each year which directly benefits the Church in the Holy Land, including medical care, education, upkeep of the holy sites, etc.
War has limited & stretched their resources.
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Sometimes our personal banner can become more important than being Catholic. It doesn’t matter if you follow TLM or NO. It should not be the primary focus of our faith. When you look at the Catholic church and the various rites that exist. Then you know that we all have a place at the table.
The challenge is dealing with some of the people who want to use the form of the Mass as a weapon against someone else. I see it on both sides of the endless debate. They feel that their path is the only on…
Six Small Words on Good Friday: Thank You. I’m Sorry. I Forgive.
And one Great Amen.
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The past couple days, this scene just keeps playing in my head on a loop.
There seems to be an endless supply of Will Ropers in Conservative, Inc., these days.
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My next nonfiction book should be fun. I’m reading Late Star Trek: The Final Frontier in the Frnachise Era. I’m a big Trekker, so I’m interested in what has to say. (Book review coming, but no guarantee when.)
In other news, the Saga of the Septic continues. We got quotes ont he landscapting (and the irrigation, which is broken, including the pump what burned out at some point and no one noticed because life is chaos). They start today because the grass that survived the septic is parched. The …
Three short, powerful poems for today’s austere commemoration.
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Jesus rides a donkey, a symbol of peace, into the heart of violence and oppression. This Holy Week, we have the opportunity to reflect on the kind of symbols we embrace — and how they challenge us to action in this moment.
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This month I’ll be a priest for 13 years, and celebrating the Lords Supper today, where the ministerial priesthood was instituted, has given me some thoughts.
Sin is a rejection of intimacy/communion with Christ. Judas had already arranged Christ’s betrayal, and his mind was so warped that he could not intuit the generosity of the Lords gift at this Table. Other things took up his mind in such a way - such as money and politics - that he couldn’t ground his mind in the morally sane principle of …
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With the faith of Christ in my heart. Here are the intentions that are troubling me. Please keep these matters in prayer.
For my mom, Mary, and her on going health issues. Wisdom of the doctors and over all healing.
That Dar (Kat’s mom) can get her van fixed quickly and that the price is fair.
I’m still dealing with some anxiety that is d…
"The worst kind of depression is not when we see bad things and hate them; the worst kind of depression, the hell below hell, is when we see good things, and do not love them."
G.K. Chesterton, LONDON OPINION, APR. 2, 1904
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He fled violent gangs in El Salvador that were threatening him and his family.
A U.S. court protected him from deportation. He got a work permit, a job, a wife, and three kids. No criminal record. Then ICE deported him anyway—by "mistake"—and dumped him into a Salvadoran prison built to house the very gangs he ran from.
No trial. No heari…
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Need someone to help you move? I know a lesbian with a truck. Broken hearted and need a good cry? I know a lesbian with 17 herbal teas and the coziest couch. From fundraisers for shelter dogs to summer potlucks just for the fun of it no one shows up for each other like lesbians. And that’s something to be proud of.
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Very good news! Not only is Abrego Garcia alive, Salvadoran authorities, reversing their initial refusal, allowed him to meet with Senator Van Hollen, who called Abrego Garcia’s wife to “pass along his message of love.” The police-state machine blinking in the harsh light of global scrutiny?
Michael and Satan Fight for the Body of Moses
Commentaries on the Letter of Jude are more interesting than you might expect. There’s a lot going on in these 459 words. F’rinstance, Jude 9 is a real rabbit hole: ”But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounc…
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One of the most dashing heroes of World War II, and one of the finest English stylists of the last century to boot, was Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915–2011). Well before his association with the military, he decided in 1933, as an eighteen-year-old dropout, to walk across Europe, starting in Holland and ending in Constantinople. The books he…
Notes have become the playground of my writing. Sometimes an article gets started and then gets revised as I fine tune what I’m trying to say. The picture in this case is one that I took when I was at Christ The Good Shepherd in Saginaw, MI. One of many pictures I have in my collection.
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On using AI to plan a trip, and why that’s all you should use it for. With a nod to wonderful recent piece
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The Martinis will continue until…well, until I get tired of Martinis.
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Lesbians have always been making music. From La Maupin to Gladys Bentley, Lesley Gore or three friends in a basement with understanding parents. Expressing ourselves through music is not new. But this is now. Let’s keep it going! Find the next band you want to see live or the next singer you and your friends will dance to. Let’s build a …
Getting an encouraging message from a reader out of the blue was a wonderful thing to wake up to. Blessed be God, who has been so good to me.
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J.D. Vance, a Catholic, shares responsibility for mistakenly sending a man to a foreign jail where beatings, torture, malnutrition and murder are commonplace. Rather than correct this error, he chose to laugh and smile with the dictator who set up this gulag. And will do nothing to facilitate his return.
In Holy Week.
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