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Suffering happens to everyone and can be minimized
At Church yesterday, i can’t recall the Gospel’s main message with clarity. It revolved around the truth that human suffering is part of our experience and the pathway (my word) to peace, contentment, and an absence of suffering (Heaven). As we age, we can harness forgiveness, compassion, surrender, and service to others as positive, blessed […]
Read so they want to watch
Most people are conditioned to follow along in the missal while the Lector reads. Why? Shouldn’t the focus be on Saint Paul or Jeremiah? Shouldn’t the reader be speaking in a way the requires no textbook? Why not just ask everyone to (silently) read the scripture to themselves? Try to imagine the time, place, audience, […]
Nature is a Church for everyone
Nature is a Church for everyone. All those decades when i wasn’t sitting under a Church roof, well, i actually was, but didn’t recognize the sky as the roof. Nature is a perfect testimony that there is something greater than our mortal understanding can fathom. The mystery of Faith summarizes our inability to understand what […]
Was the Priest really surprised?
Was the Priest really surprised? While delivering his Sermon a few days ago, he reached a point where he asked the entire congregation, “Are you on fire? Crickets. He asked a second time. A few crickets woke up, but an overwhelming lack of outward expression. Leaning over, i asked my Family, “Would you have been […]