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?
"Sometimes to find the light, we must first touch the darkness."
The main alter of my parish church, St. Mary's of Greenville, stripped on Holy Thursday night to commemorate the Passion of Christ.
“The one and only good is to love God with your whole heart and to be poor in spirit here below.”
- St. Thérèse of Lisieux
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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.
Please prayerfully give if you go.
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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.
The story of Good Friday is in one sense the most typical story of all: an authoritarian regime putting to death anyone who dares dissent, religious leaders more concerned with their own power than the truth, people eager to spit on anyone who calls out their hypocrisy.
Yet, it is also the strangest story of all: how an unjust act led to …
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It may seem irreverent to suggest, but I think it’s in part human. I wonder if Christ, while asking the apostles to prepare the feast for the last supper, might have taken to a rest (nap). Knowing he needed the energy and that he could rely on his Apostles to follow instructions, it would make sense.
Either way, not being the same thing, I think I’m going to follow suit with this idea before the 4 parishes I oversee celebrate Triduum. :)
The line in this interview that resonated with me the most:
“The heart demands redemption.”
Praise God it’s coming soon❤️
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I’m delighted to share this with you: an excerpt from one of the five pieces of my own writing I’m proudest of! The essay, written for Kenneth R. Morefield’s book on the Arts & Faith Top 100 Films, deals with The Song of Bernadette and Jessica Hausner’s 2009 Lourdes. This excerpt isn’t about film, but about the epistemology of miracles a…
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“He humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death—even death on a cross.
Therefore God also highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”
(Philippians 2:8-11)
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“Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament...There you will find romance, glory, honour, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves on earth..."—J.R.R. Tolkien to his son Michael, March 1941
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…
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“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NASB95)
A blessed Maundy Thursday to all!
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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 …
