Children
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Bike Riding
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1 min read
{This is an unfinished fragment of a post from about 5 years ago. I kind of like it the way it is. It made me remember the day and how special the time was for me. And how special my daughter still seems to me, that even the butterfly is captivated by her.} We…
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Aylan and the Others
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2 min read
I didn’t think of him (maybe I did). More like I tried not to think of how small he once was. But his wasn’t the first I saw, the first, “chilling” she called it, I couldn’t take. It was of a boy on his back, shirt below his chin like when he shows his belly…
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Two Days Before: Wednesday of Holy Week
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2 min read
“It was two days before the Passover” Read the Text: Mark 14:1-11 Did you notice the context? Jesus brings His followers around, staying at the house of an outcast, and is served by another. Then is betrayed by one of His own. Of course, you were naturally drawn to that age-old debate: should they sell…
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How to Not Be a Stumbling Block
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4 min read
A re-imagined sermon for those that have missed church recently After calming the storm, Jesus and the disciples come to shore, bombarded by people looking for healing. It is from here that Jesus takes his disciples aside and asks them who they think he is. Peter’s declaration: “Messiah!” is followed by his fear for Jesus’s…
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What you don’t understand about Sacraments
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6 min read
The old argument goes children need to understand the sacrament before they receive it. I am still surprised to hear this. As a priest, I hear it from people of all sorts. When they do suggest such a thing to me, I simply ask them Even after they were baptized as infants? The look I…