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National Hugging Day: Go and Hug Someone!
I come from a hugging family. We hug one another lots. So, I readily said “yes” when asked to write this blog. After all, I’m an experienced hugger and “hugee.” No matter all my years of experience in hugs, I couldn’t resist the urge to Google up National Hug Day. Sister Rosemary Nudd hugging Sister Martha Wessel The website gives a straightforward and unsurprising definition of the day: “National Hugging Day is a heartwarming holiday that encourages people to express...
Defining Independence on Independence Day
...which Independent States have a right to do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.” In the Details It’s now July 4, 2024. We’ve looked at the words of our Declaration of Independence. For me, a Sister of Providence for 60 years with a strong commitment to Love, Mercy and Justice, the authors of the Declaration...
February 2, 2025: Feast of the Presentation of the Lord
Gospel: Luke 2:22-40 When the days were completed for their purification according to the law of Moses, Mary and Joseph took Jesus up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord, just as it is written in the law of the Lord, Every male that opens the womb shall be consecrated to the Lord, and to offer the sacrifice of a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons, in accordance with the dictate in the law of the Lord. Now...
February 16, 2025: Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Gospel – Luke: 6:17, 20-26 Jesus came down with the Twelve and stood on a stretch of level ground with a great crowd of his disciples and a large number of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the coastal region of Tyre and Sidon. And raising his eyes toward his disciples he said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for the kingdom of God is yours. Blessed are you who are now hungry, for you will be satisfied....
February 23, 2025: Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
Gospel – Luke 6:27-38 Jesus said to his disciples: “To you who hear I say, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. To the person who strikes you on one cheek, offer the other one as well, and from the person who takes your cloak, do not withhold even your tunic. Give to everyone who asks of you, and from the one who takes what is...
February 9, 2025: Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Gospel – Luke 5:1-11 While the crowd was pressing in on Jesus and listening to the word of God, he was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret. He saw two boats there alongside the lake; the fishermen had disembarked and were washing their nets. Getting into one of the boats, the one belonging to Simon, he asked him to put out a short distance from the shore. Then he sat down and taught the crowds from the boat. After he...
May 4, 2025: Third Sunday of Easter
Gospel: John 21:1-19 At that time, Jesus revealed himself again to his disciples at the Sea of Tiberias. He revealed himself in this way. Together were Simon Peter, Thomas called Didymus, Nathanael from Cana in Galilee, Zebedee’s sons, and two others of his disciples. Simon Peter said to them, “I am going fishing.” They said to him, “We also will come with you.” So they went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing. When it...
May 11, 2025: Fourth Sunday of Easter
Gospel: John 10:27-30 Jesus said, “My sheep hear my voice; I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish. No one can take them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one can take them out of the Father’s hand. The Father and I are one.” Reflection Don’t let the brevity of this Sunday’s Gospel fool you as it did me....
May 18, 2025: Fifth Sunday of Easter
Gospel: John 13:31-33a, 34-35 When Judas had left them, Jesus said, “Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him. If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and God will glorify him at once. My children, I will be with you only a little while longer. I give you a new commandment: love one another. As I have loved you, so you also should love one another. This is how...