Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Random Lent thoughts: "Mighty deeds," and lost in Babylon

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Just a couple of Lent-inspired thoughts. The first thought occurred to me as I was re-reading the (ICEL) opening prayer in the script for th...
Monday, March 10, 2014

Songstories 26: Hold Us in Your Mercy (GIA, 1993)

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St. Martin RC Church in Washington, D.C. The many years I spent working with the North American Forum on the Catechumenate began when Ga...
Friday, March 7, 2014

Lead Us to the Water (1st Sunday in Lent, Year A)

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At that time Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert. For us humans, it always seems to be a question of “who’s leading whom?” Whose v...
Thursday, March 6, 2014

Songstories 25: Change Our Hearts (NALR, 1984; OCP 2000)

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For those who don't already know this, the title of my new book for Lent was Mary Carol Kendzia's idea. "Change Our Hearts...
Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Dust, ashes, cross, and water

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You still occasionally hear a presider say it. After we’ve all made our way into the church, greeted each other, listened to the introductio...
Tuesday, March 4, 2014

My Lenten Manifesto

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There's a tremendously poignant scene in the musical Camelot  when Arthur and Guinevere try to find a way to be together even as the...
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Friday, February 28, 2014

Two masters, Bob White, Lily, Rose, and Violet (A8O)

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This is the last of the Sundays we will hear from the Sermon on the Mount, but don't give up hope. It comes in again on Ash Wednesday, a...