Click the link to the Facebook post from Vatican Radio-English Edition. Pope Francis during his general audience today concedes to the playfulness of the wind. If you look, you can see him holding his cross. When I do this, I am praying to someone. My guess is that this is the secret to his joy…
….Brother Luke for best portrayal of absent monk in a documentary! Life is so random! There we were, my friends and I, finalizing our purchases at the bookstore of our monastery when we overheard a long conversation about homemade fudge between some ladies and Brother Luke. I had been joking that we weren’t special enough…
It has been a bit of a whirlwind around here with work and life and work. But, last night I was able to witness my first class of students be confirmed. And what a beautiful group they are. Such promising young ladies and gentlemen and there in the back is one of the blessings I…
There is a lady in our parish who helps tend the flowers. She also cleans up the pews and around the church. She also brings gifts for the priest; this woman who has virtually nothing.She is Vietnamese and maybe 70 years old. She wears what the women would have worn during the war. She speaks…
As it would happen, I am not sleeping well. Too much going on and too little exercise plus too many cats in the neighborhood have been making for restless nights. When I do wake up that is when my anxiety hits in full force. My legs get restless and my mind goes in twenty directions. …
Well, I just have to get this off my chest. Yesterday, on Talk of the Nation on NPR they were asking callers what the were looking for in their next Pope, it was an interesting interview and I was heartened by most of the responses until the last one, which has disturbed me since.While most…
I guess if I were at the Vatican I would be a little on edge. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/lightning-strikes-vatican-day-pope-1704295 Just sayin’
It is hard to know what to say about this. I am conflicted in as much as I am very pleased and have a great deal of respect for the decision that this Pope has made. I want to think it is a good and honest one. I believe it is drawn from humility…I will…
In this article from NCR we are told that the Vatican has begun to recognize that youth are not responding to their medieval approach. It was so much easier when no one was educated and more people relied on the church for their livelihood. Though I jest, there is a sadness in me for a…
http://www.americamagazine.org/content/article.cfm?article_id=13347Wonderful article that engages people who have stopped going to church and why! Finally, people may feel that someone notices and someone cares and it does matter if you show up at your parish. A must read for any person who is involved in ministry, in thier parish or who simply want to know that…