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Steve Bogner has a great year end post at Catholicism, Holiness and Spirituality. He’s certainly a moderate voice and I’m grateful to be able to read his comments and reflections often. Read more here. Technorati Tags:war, military spending, peace

Following Mass and brunch today I took a walk along the Mountain Road at Mt. Irenaeus. It’s a peaceful and contemplative journey and one that I wanted to make. I reflected on this last day of the calendar year and had some trepidation about what lies ahead in 2007. Climbing slowly and meandering along this … Read more

When peaceful silence lay over all, and night had run it half of her swift course, your all-powerful word, O Lord, leaped down from heaven, from the royal throne.–Wisdom 18:14-15. This is the Entrance Antiphon for today’s Mass. There is a quiet beauty to the night and to the darkness that it brings. In the … Read more

In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy.– Brother David Steindl-Rast @ gratefulness.org. Brother David has a tremendous site that I’ve added to the links section. I’ve been getting a regular email from Gratefulness.org for over a year now and nearly everyday … Read more

I’m a proponent of open source software and this Software for Starving Students collection of Windows and Macintosh open source titles is the best collection I’ve seen to date. Most of these titles are also available for Linux depending on your distribution. Follow this link to download an ISO that you can burn and distribute … Read more

Thank you to Plainfoolish for a lovely and well written piece about soldiers. She has done a better job than I did in articulating the love of soldiers and the dislike of war. Thank you to all the bloggers and readers who stop by this blog and comment what I have written. This blog is … Read more

I came across this humorous little animation while looking at the blogs of Houghton College students and faculty. There is a powerful message in this short clip. One of the most enjoyable aspects of blogging is my own curiosity about other bloggers who are writing about subjects that I am writing about. Almost always I … Read more

Tonight I heard that a young man who was once part of a Fellowship of Christian Athletes “Huddle” I oversaw is headed to Iraq. He doesn’t know that I’ve been praying for him ever since he was in college and that I knew that eventually he’d go to Iraq. I hoped against hope that somehow … Read more

A sacred illness is one that educates us and alters us from the inside out, provides experiences and therefore knowledge that we could not possibly achieve in any other way.–Deena Metzger I like the quote because it resonates with my experiences. In the past two years I’ve had two sacred illnesses. At the time I … Read more

It’s actually just thirty minutes past midnight and Midnight Mass ended nearly two hours ago, but Christmas Eve Mass has always been a highlight for me even in the many years when I didn’t attend Mass regularly. It’s a mystical time and full of wonder. What was it like in the countryside over two-thousand years … Read more