Of course we don’t need church to pray. ‘I pray while I am hiking’, ‘while walking in the forest’, ‘while fishing’; I have heard many statements like these, in the past I would nod somewhat uncomfortably; not infrequently, I felt the comments were said as if to ward off contagion from those of us who […]
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Communion in diversity Communion in diversity, legitimate diversity, is the phrase Pope Francis used in the Joint Declaration created by Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras at their joint meeting in Jerusalem last week, to describe the “unity to which only the Holy Spirit can lead us, that of communion in legitimate diversity,” reminiscent of John’s
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I remember when camping meant a tent, sleeping bags, listening to the raccoons nimbly flip off the top of the metal garbage container and nights where the stars were so dense and the milky way created such a wide swath through the sky that most of the black night is obscured. That was camping. For
Happiness: is there a key? Strange question, maybe, maybe not. “So, how exactly, do you decide to be happy?” My friend looked bemusedly at me as she replied to my statement that I thought happiness was a decision we made. “LOOK at that tree!” I exclaimed loudly and with vehemence, knowing that my reply to her question
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This past Monday morning, my friend and I got to Rosharon to meet Max. Rosharon, Texas is the home of Aeolus Dobermans and an almost 6 month old puppy Candace has named Max after our frequent talks after my Dobie boy Ally’s sudden death. Max is bigger than pictured here; he is, after all, close
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The dance of love I had been to this church in November of 2009 while in Texas to research my recently published novel. Now I am back to Texas to do early promotions for the book in Austin and Houston. Five years ago, the parishioners in Austin were raising money to build their beautiful church
Thinking, Once Again, About Time-About Stability Due to major changes in my personal and professional life, I now have more free time. More time to write, pray, ponder, read, exercise-one, all or none of these. I should be more grateful. And there should be more to show for this first full week of my new
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The last couple of months have been filled with difficulties-ranging from trivial to awful. And so we decided to spend Holy Week and Easter weekend down here. I was dreading yet another series of “firsts”; this RV suffused with memories of our boy, now gone, the 4 mile walk along the ocean that the boys
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The samaritan woman- St. Fantine When Christ meets her, she’d had 5 husbands and is currently living with a man. In the eastern Catholic Church, she became St. Fantine. Fantine is the mother of Cosette in Les Miserables. Victor Hugo’s tragic story we know because of the splendid-at times celestial- music from the Broadway play
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Why this useless murmuring? Why this tumult among nations, among peoples this useless murmuring? They arise, the kings of the earth, princes plot against the Lord and his Anointed. These are the first 4 lines of psalm 2, words I am sure I’ve read before but only today, on this first Sunday of Advent, do
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