Category: Reflections
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for we rely on the mercy of god
Today’s Gospel reading is hard. Matthew 20 begins with the parable of the landowner hiring workers for his vineyard. He hires some in the early morning, agreeing to pay them…
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voluntary poverty
This comes from an e-mail I wrote last week. I skimmed it to take out personal references but may have missed a couple. Voluntary poverty, as it seems so far,…
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works and prayer
We find prayer no less a struggle than did the first disciples, who wearied of their watch. Even our ministry can offer itself as a convincing excuse to be neglectful,…
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the life you may save
I read Paul Elie’s The Life You May Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage almost a year ago and found it a very interesting book. That time around,…
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public school baccalaureates
The not-so-biblical biblical baccalaureate GetReligion, a blog dealing with religion in media, commented Tuesday on a story out of St. Louis that Lindbergh High School will be having two baccalaureates…
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the long goodbye
Note: I try to make this site useful and interesting to the general public but every so often, I just want to have a personal post. This is one such…