Friday, May 29, 2015

3 X 3 X 7 = the primes of life

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You get to a certain age, you grasp at every numerological straw to break the fall of time. Next year will be 4 3 , or 2 6 . After that,...
Thursday, May 28, 2015

An offer, with those John 6 weeks coming in July and August

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Every three years, in mid to late summer, the lectionary in year B jumps back to the gospel of St. John from Mark for five weeks of readin...
Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Singing Trinity (Trinity Sunday, year B)

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The Scripture this weekend gives us an interesting and challenging approach to the mystery of God. Some will, as always, and as might be e...
Wednesday, May 20, 2015

"I have much more to tell you" (Pentecost)

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Seraph in flames Just a few thoughts today on Pentecost. Something we learned at St. Anne from the late Fr. Jim Dunning (of happy memory...
Tuesday, May 19, 2015

SongStories 45: Pentecost Sequence (Christ the Icon, 2005, WLP)

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The Veni Sancta Spiritus  is a masterpiece of late medieval poetry. The Latin sequence for the Feast of Pentecost is composed in ten tercets...
Friday, May 15, 2015

Gaining the whole world: Nixon, Cheney, torture, and Thomas More

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That mounting cacophony we hear? It's the expanding field of candidates for the 2016 presidential election. For the most part they ide...
Thursday, May 14, 2015

RPM - "Rhythm Prayer Move" project

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The word "salvation" derives from the Latin word for "health," salus,  and without making too  much of that point, ...