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franciscanprayerfraternityavamo: MEMORIAL DAY
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Saturday, May 23, 2015. This weekend we remember, with deep gratitude, the service given to us by our veterans and all of our current men and women serving our country and the world in the military; let us pray for all of them and their families and other loved ones. In gratitude to Fr. Austin Fleming who posted this on his blogsite:. To the Soldier, To the Veteran. These things I do not know:. The sound of a bullet. The power of a blast. The blood of a comrade. The depth of your wound. The dread at dawn.
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Itzik's Well: June 2015
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Visit Itzik's Well's new home at www.irwinkeller.com. Monday, June 15, 2015. Pagan Day (Postcard from Greece). Here are some ideas that are best expressed in the language that gave rise to them: cognoscenti, joie de vivre, farklempt. And once in a while, there’s a spiritual impulse that just wants to be expressed in a pagan idiom, no matter how dyed-in-the-wool a monotheist you happen to be. The traditional travel prayer, and slowly experiencing my trusty religious touchstones falling away. Triangles as ...
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Itzik's Well: May 2015
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Visit Itzik's Well's new home at www.irwinkeller.com. Friday, May 15, 2015. B'Chukotai: What Did You Just Say? For Congregation Ner Shalom. At last night's congregational meeting, I mentioned my drash for tonight. What I said about it was that I had nothing. The only trigger I had was that on Wednesday I'd asked Siri to plot a route to Urban Adamah in Berkeley, to which Siri replied, "I'm sorry, Irwin, I cannot find any places matching Urban Octomom.". Are the true heir of Lenin and I. If you're good you...
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Itzik's Well: All of it: Gevurah
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Visit Itzik's Well's new home at www.irwinkeller.com. Sunday, April 26, 2015. All of it: Gevurah. I was honored to offer the invocation for the Sonoma County Yom Hashoah Commemoration on April 19:. Good afternoon. Shalom aleykhem. This year we have been asked to give special attention to the quality of gevurah,. But in Judaim the concept of gevurah. Is even broader than those descriptions. We use the word to mean strength, but it is not always an obvious kind of strength. In our mystical traditio...And h...
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Itzik's Well: The Eyes of a Goat
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Visit Itzik's Well's new home at www.irwinkeller.com. Friday, May 1, 2015. The Eyes of a Goat. Drash on Parashat Acharei Mot. But then, after this unimpeded flow of confession, the priest's job was to send this now-burdened innocent into the wilderness. What is up with this? You'd think that the magic of this expurgation would come in the form of laying sins on the goat and then, frankly, doing away with it. The place where the goat is gone. Or maybe oz azal. But here's the odd part about the ritual, a p...
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Itzik's Well: Spirograph, Leviticus, and the Cycles of our Lives
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Visit Itzik's Well's new home at www.irwinkeller.com. Friday, March 20, 2015. Spirograph, Leviticus, and the Cycles of our Lives. For Congregation Ner Shalom, Parashat Vayikra. New moon, new year, equinox, eclipse, junk in a basement. The possibilities are endless. Do you remember Spirograph? A new month, a new year, all of these arbitrary markers signal possibility. Rebirth. Reset. Reboot. So I wonder what we can offer up to help us move from state to state, or to be mindful when we do? These clothes, h...
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A Concord Pastor Comments: Pause for Prayer: SATURDAY 5/23
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A Concord Pastor Comments. On Spirituality, Worship and Prayer in the Roman Catholic Tradition. Pause for Prayer: SATURDAY 5/23. Every year the soldiers of the Third United States Infantry Regiment ("The Old Guard") take part in a ceremony called Flags-In. Just before Memorial Day, each of 228,000 headstones in Arlington National Cemetery is decorated with a small American flag. In addition to my prayer posted yesterday. Here's another Memorial Day prayer, this from Alden Solovy. The sound of a bullet.
