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Hope's Mama: Fourth and Walnut
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Thoughts on peace, music, interdependence, following Jesus, and what was God thinking when She made me Catholic? Monday, March 23, 2009. I only came across this passage from Thomas Merton in October and was so struck by it. Maybe you have already read it? In any case, it resonated with me strongly. Today at Mass, our dear visiting Jesuit, Father Norm, mentioned this episode in his homily and it made me want to share it with you too:. From Conjectures of A Guilty Bystander. On an entirely different note, ...
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Hope's Mama: God's paradise
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Thoughts on peace, music, interdependence, following Jesus, and what was God thinking when She made me Catholic? Friday, October 05, 2007. From a radio interview with the former doorman of the Plaza Hotel:. You know, my father told me years ago . 'Be such a man and live such a life that if everybody lived a life like yours, this would be God's paradise.' And I go by that.". Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Michigan, United States. Oh, enough about me. View my complete profile. Holy day of obligation.
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Hope's Mama: before I head for my nice warm bed tonight
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Thoughts on peace, music, interdependence, following Jesus, and what was God thinking when She made me Catholic? Wednesday, December 02, 2009. Before I head for my nice warm bed tonight. I need to tell you that it is cold here, nearly freezing, and it is raining outside. The dog is refusing to go out in the weather. And there are people sleeping in tents. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Michigan, United States. Oh, enough about me. View my complete profile. New york on five transcendent moments a day.
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Hope's Mama: holy day of obligation
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Thoughts on peace, music, interdependence, following Jesus, and what was God thinking when She made me Catholic? Thursday, November 01, 2007. Holy day of obligation. I woke up wanting to go to Mass. Until I noticed that the church websites were insisting that today is a holy day of obligation. When the church gets all paternal like that, I become a rebellious adolescent. QUIT TELLING ME WHAT TO DO. In the next moment, I remember that today,. Like every day, is a most holy day of obligation. You could do ...
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Hope's Mama: stopping the bombs in Oakridge, Tennessee
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Thoughts on peace, music, interdependence, following Jesus, and what was God thinking when She made me Catholic? Tuesday, September 25, 2007. Stopping the bombs in Oakridge, Tennessee. I came home from Oakridge tired from the sun and two days on the bus and the emotions. My little girl wants to know. "That's a good question." I say. "To protect the bomb factory from the Buddhists, I guess." She laughs out loud. Her dad is a Buddhist. She knows that Buddhists do not harm anyone. 8:34 PM, September 25, 2007.
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Hope's Mama: every one of us is every one of us
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Thoughts on peace, music, interdependence, following Jesus, and what was God thinking when She made me Catholic? Wednesday, April 18, 2007. Every one of us is every one of us. 33 people shot to death on a university campus in Virgina. The BBC news is reporting that every South Korean is feeling. Great shame because the gunman was born in Korea. The reporter says that Koreans in the United States are bracing for a "backlash.". When a Korean kills 33 Americans, Koreans are ashamed. My God, I am so ashamed.
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Hope's Mama: fair trade first communion
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Thoughts on peace, music, interdependence, following Jesus, and what was God thinking when She made me Catholic? Monday, April 09, 2007. Fair trade first communion. It would probably be too much to try to depict the women who risk their health to bleach the fabrics to that unearthly white that my daughter and every other Catholic girl I know have come to associate with the "princess for a day" style of dress that is now a prerequisite for an American first communion. This is asking a lot from a collage.
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Hope's Mama: first sunday of advent
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Thoughts on peace, music, interdependence, following Jesus, and what was God thinking when She made me Catholic? Monday, November 30, 2009. First sunday of advent. More music in my head, a recording of renaissance music, women's voices in an echoing church: "Gau-de, gau-de, Em- man- -u-el, shall come to you o, I- -sra-el.". My little family of three gathered at the table and we said the prayers and lit the first candle, light in the darkness. 10:53 PM, December 03, 2009. How I miss you! The age of reason.
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Hope's Mama: The age of reason
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Thoughts on peace, music, interdependence, following Jesus, and what was God thinking when She made me Catholic? Saturday, June 16, 2007. The age of reason. Two days past her first communion,. A puddle of shiny organza on the floor,. She wants to know. Why we never see any women priests. At church, not even one. Because they’re not allowed, baby. I watch the truth seep in like slow poison. Until she squints up at me,. Her voice is so strong. Shout it again, wise child. Makes deaf men hear. And the word is.
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Hope's Mama: truth and beauty
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Thoughts on peace, music, interdependence, following Jesus, and what was God thinking when She made me Catholic? Wednesday, April 22, 2009. It appears that I am the last person in North America to hear of Susan Boyle and to watch the. Of her performance on Britain's Got Talent. The British version of American Idol. Then who would she be to us? A Susan Boyle who can't sing is every bit as miraculous, every bit as deserving of our respect and encouragement as a Susan Boyle who can. I will tell you this onc...
