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Journals and Letters week 51: Running toward Jesus
...something we “get over” but something we learn to live with. As I read the editor’s description of Sister St. Francis’ sister Sister Mary Joseph and all her contributions to the community over 29 years, I was thinking of how proud the mother must have been of these two daughters. I also thought about all their traits of love and generosity and so many others. They must have learned them from her. About the mission And now we come to...
The Woods continues to call: Woods Community Cemetery
...should they be interested as well.” Michael and Rebecca Maher were married in the Church of the Immaculate Conception. Michael’s wife, mother, sister, several aunts and cousins graduated from the College. “Leo Sullivan, who was a cook for the sisters for many years, is my grandfather.” Julie Norsworthy’s father, Georgory Kamka, was an artist “understudy,” who worked with Henry Marchond, creator of the dioramas. Julie would “visit in the summer and see a lot of sisters, many of whom remained...
‘But how could we sing a song of the Lord in a foreign land?’
For the several days that I was trying to write this Easter blog, a verse from Psalm 137 was about all that came to my mind. I was holding “How could we sing a song of the Lord in a foreign land?” in one hand and the words, “Alleluia! Christ is risen!” in the other. Try as I might, I could not get the psalm verse out of my mind, nor feel any kind of gladness. Of course, what prompted...
July 3, 2022: Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Gospel: Luke 10:1-12, 17-20 At that time the Lord appointed seventy-two others whom he sent ahead of him in pairs to every town and place he intended to visit. He said to them, “The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few; so ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers for his harvest. Go on your way; behold, I am sending you like lambs among wolves. Carry no money bag, no sack, no sandals; and greet no...
July 10, 2022: Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Gospel: Luke 10:25-37 There was a scholar of the law who stood up to test Jesus and said, “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” Jesus said to him, “What is written in the law? How do you read it?” He said in reply, “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your being, with all your strength, and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” He replied to him, “You...
July 17, 2022: Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Gospel: Luke 10:38-42 Jesus entered a village where a woman whose name was Martha welcomed him. She had a sister named Mary who sat beside the Lord at his feet listening to him speak. Martha, burdened with much serving, came to him and said, “Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me by myself to do the serving? Tell her to help me.” The Lord said to her in reply, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and worried...
July 24, 2022: Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Gospel: Luke 11:1-13 Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when he had finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray just as John taught his disciples.” He said to them, “When you pray, say; Father, hallowed by your name, your kingdom come. Give us each day our daily bread and forgive us our sins for we ourselves forgive everyone in debt to us, and do not subject us to the final test.” And...
July 31, 2022: Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Gospel: Luke 12:13-21 Someone in the crowd said to Jesus, “Teacher, tell my brother to share the inheritance with me.” He replied to him, “Friend, who appointed me as your judge and arbitrator?” Then he said to the crowd, “Take care to guard against all greed, for though one may be rich, one’s life does not consist of possessions.” Then he told them a parable. “There was a rich man whose land produced a bountiful harvest. He asked himself, ‘What...
November 6, 2022: Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time
Gospel: Luke 20:27-38 Some Sadducees, those who deny that there is a resurrection, came forward and put this question to Jesus, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us, If someone’s brother dies leaving a wife but no child, his brother must take the wife and raise up descendants for his brother. Now there were seven brothers; the first married a woman but died childless. Then the second and the third married her, and likewise all the seven died childless. Finally the...
November 13, 2022: Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time
Gospel: Luke 21:5-19 While some people were speaking about how the temple was adorned with costly stones and votive offerings, Jesus said, “All that you see here – the days will come when there will not be left a stone upon another stone that will not be thrown down.” Then they asked him, “Teacher, when will this happen? And what sign will there be when all these things are about to happen?” He answered, “See that you not be deceived,...
November 20, 2022: Solemnity of our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe
Gospel: Luke 23:35-43 The rulers sneered at Jesus and said, “He save others, let him save himself if he is the chosen one, the Christ of God.” Even the soldiers jeered at him. As they approached to offer him wine they called out, “If you are King of the Jews, save yourself.” Above him there was an inscription that read, “This is the King of the Jews.” Now one of the criminals hanging there reviled Jesus, saying, “Are you not...
November 27, 2022: First Sunday of Advent
Gospel: Matthew 24:37-44 Jesus said to his disciples: “As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. In those days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day that Noah entered the ark. They did not know until the flood came and carried them all away. So will it be also at the coming of the Son of Man. Two...