Authenticity
Did you hear the one about the woman who became a man but then gave birth to three kids and now wants a divorce? True story. Thomas Beatie was born a woman, Tracy Lagondino. He (she?) claims he always...
View ArticleA child’s song of praise
If it’s Tuesday evening, then my ten-year-old daughter has choir practice. She’s one of a few dedicated children at our parish who lend their enthusiastic voices each week at Sunday Mass. I’m one of...
View ArticleSpiritual giraffes
Sometime after my family started traveling, my sister and her husband began traveling full time as well. They now travel with their two children, my two-year-old niece and my four-month-old nephew. My...
View ArticleLate have I loved You
Late have I loved You, beauty so old and so new; late have I loved You… If part of that famous passage from Book Ten in Augustine’s Confessions were lifted out of the book and read independently, it...
View ArticleOut of Control
People like to know where they are going. They like to have directions, to know when and where they will arrive at the end of a journey. They like being in control of a situation, or at least knowing...
View ArticleA Lenten antidote
Before Lent the requisite lists of Things To Give Up made the rounds on my favourite blogs. I always read those lists, if only to spark my own imagination into coming up with something unique—some...
View ArticleMud
Most of my family is only at our “home” during the Christmas holidays. Because our time there is short, generally spanning between American Thanksgiving and New Years, my dad likes to plan enormous...
View Article4th Sunday: Listen to the voice of the Lord
They were astounded at his teaching for he taught as one having authority, and not as the scribes (Mk 1:21). As we commemorate the mysteries of our Lord’s public life and ministry, the Gospel text of...
View ArticleSeptuagesima Sunday and preparing for Lent
Before 1969, Septuagesima Sunday was observed in the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church. According to fisheaters.com, the three Sundays that comprise this short season are named for their distance to...
View Article6th Sunday: Be made clean!
Moved with pity, Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, and said to him, “I do choose. Be made clean! (Mk 1:41) This Sunday’s Gospel reading, in continuation with last Sunday’s text, describes...
View ArticleAuthenticity
Did you hear the one about the woman who became a man but then gave birth to three kids and now wants a divorce? True story. Thomas Beatie was born a woman, Tracy Lagondino. He (she?) claims he always...
View ArticleA child’s song of praise
If it’s Tuesday evening, then my ten-year-old daughter has choir practice. She’s one of a few dedicated children at our parish who lend their enthusiastic voices each week at Sunday Mass. I’m one of...
View ArticleSpiritual giraffes
Sometime after my family started traveling, my sister and her husband began traveling full time as well. They now travel with their two children, my two-year-old niece and my four-month-old nephew. My...
View ArticleLate have I loved You
Late have I loved You, beauty so old and so new; late have I loved You… If part of that famous passage from Book Ten in Augustine’s Confessions were lifted out of the book and read independently, it...
View ArticleOut of Control
People like to know where they are going. They like to have directions, to know when and where they will arrive at the end of a journey. They like being in control of a situation, or at least knowing...
View ArticleA Lenten antidote
Before Lent the requisite lists of Things To Give Up made the rounds on my favourite blogs. I always read those lists, if only to spark my own imagination into coming up with something unique—some...
View ArticleMud
Most of my family is only at our “home” during the Christmas holidays. Because our time there is short, generally spanning between American Thanksgiving and New Years, my dad likes to plan enormous...
View Article4th Sunday: Listen to the voice of the Lord
They were astounded at his teaching for he taught as one having authority, and not as the scribes (Mk 1:21). As we commemorate the mysteries of our Lord’s public life and ministry, the Gospel text of...
View ArticleSeptuagesima Sunday and preparing for Lent
Before 1969, Septuagesima Sunday was observed in the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church. According to fisheaters.com, the three Sundays that comprise this short season are named for their distance to...
View Article6th Sunday: Be made clean!
Moved with pity, Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, and said to him, “I do choose. Be made clean! (Mk 1:41) This Sunday’s Gospel reading, in continuation with last Sunday’s text, describes...
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