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Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being. Each of us owes the deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this inner light.–Albert Schweitzer How many times has your…
The following came to me from a weekly reflection from Every Church a Peace Church. To whom much as been given much shall be required. Luke 12:48 The political ads flicker endlessly on our television screens. Most appeal to our…
“We can know God easily so long as we do not feel it necessary to define Him.” Once having grasped this truth I began to see how natural knowing God became. The difficulty of the forced, of the artificial, of…
My Dad and Grandfather had lots of expressions and I’m indebted to them. They were the koans of my youth. One of them came to play again today after speaking with a colleague about some of our peers and whether…
Andrew Sullivan, some guy from the “Log Cabin Republicans, and two ministers are on the Larry King Show tonight discussing among other things the impact of the Foley Scandal on “purging” homosexuals from the Republican party. It must be near…
May the sun bring you new energy by day, may the moon softly restore you by night, may the rain wash away your worries, may the breeze blow new strength into your being–Apache Blessing I got this today from Gratefulness.org.…
Today at Mass at Mt. Irenaeus we emerged to full canonical status as a fraternity in the Secular Franciscan Order. Holy Peace Chapel was filled to overflowing with Secular Franciscans from a number of fraternities in Western and Central New…
In 1944, the Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko’s mother took him from Siberia to Moscow. They were among those who witnessed a procession of twenty-thousand German war prisoners marching through the streets of Moscow: The pavements swarmed with onlookers, cordoned off…
I made a mistake in judgement today and further complicated it by not communicating with fellow Secular Franciscans. I had originally promised to bring a platter of Subway sub sandwiches to Mount Irenaeus for a luncheon today. There was a…
Today is the 34th anniversary of my graduation from Great Lakes Naval Training Center. I was in the 13th Battalion and we graduated in at 1300 hours on the 13th of October in 1972. I was a draftee who joined…