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Hope endures.

Annette

Wife, mother, blogger, Catholic ministry. I love to garden even when it goes wrong. Same with writing (and we know it can go wrong.) Believing that God is present in all of it.

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My Friend, St. Joseph of Cupertino

I can hear the voice of my beloved priest when I was in college, Dave Looney, tell me as I stressed over a test or exam, “Pray to St. Joseph of Cupertino” I can also hear my reaction in my head…”Yeah, yeah, blah! Not doing your hocus pocus. But thanks anyway.” (Don’t you just wanna…

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Pastoral Care

For the past couple of weeks our pastor has been on vacation. In his place has been an old Irish priest who lives in residence at our Parish. When I say “old” I am not as interested in his age as in his religion. We have been privy to terms such as “co-habitive fornication,” to…

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I Bless the Waters

So here we find ourselves in the midst of more flooding! I just have never seen anything like it. Water is my friend and my resting place. I go to water to recharge my batteries. Here is a little place in my back, backyard where I love to go in the spring when the water…

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Moral Documents

This is one of my favorite quotes from Stephen Colbert because it exposes the hypocrisy of the way we think as a self proclaimed “Christian” nation. I am also linking the clip from his show the other night with Fr. Tom Reese from Georgetown University that talks about the budget being a moral document. In…

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Trust

“Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD,whose hope is the LORD.He is like a tree planted beside the watersthat stretches out its roots to the stream:It fears not the heat when it comes,its leaves stay green;In the year of drought it shows no distress,but still bears fruit.” Jeremiah 17:7-8 I have always had…

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/12/vatican-scandals_n_1663335.html?&ncid=edlinkusaolp00000008&utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=falseThis is a must listen to! This is the conversation we need to be having together. Do I think it is too big to fail? I think the faith…what we believe, the truth of our experience is too big to fail.Congratulations to my fb friend Roberta who took part in this discussion. If they are…

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Lynda says:

June 8, 2012 at 10:13 am

Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 5:10
1. Annette says:
  
  June 9, 2012 at 2:03 pm
  
  so true.

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