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Darkness and Light
Lully, lullah, thou little tiny child,
Bye bye, lully, lullay.
Thou little tiny child,
Bye bye, lully, lullay.
Herod the king in his raging
Set forth upon this day
By his decree, no life spare thee
All children young to slay
All children young to slay
The above quotation comes from The Coventry Carol. This 16th century English carol representing the last lullaby sung by the mothers of the Holy…
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Ever wondered what the difference between a cross and a crucifix is? Well I have the answer for you in this video :)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_cross
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crucifix
https://applesofgold.com/jewelry/the-difference-between-crosses-and-crucifixes/#:~:text=Major%20Differences%20Between%20a%20Cross%20and%20a%20Crucifix&text=A%20Christian%20cross%20is%20simply,referred%20to%20as%20the%20corpus
https://diocesan.com/cross-crucifix-similar-different/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_cross_variants
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Orthodox_cross
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10 Quotes For Holy Week – Diocesan
https://diocesan.com/10-quotes-for-holy-week/
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Let Us Go Rejoicing
Let Us Go Rejoicing
Weeks are long and weekends are short. Life is hard and we are so busy, so tired. Catching up on household chores, sleeping in, trying to have a little fun with family or friends—for many of us there is so much we want to do or need to do that a weekend never seems long enough. Sunday Mass can begin to feel like just another weekend chore, and maybe even one that we resent having to do.
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Our Patient Father
People love to make fun of the songs we sang at church in the early 1970s, but I was a little girl then and I remember many of them fondly. Today’s Gospel took me back to that time instantly, to the refrain of a song written by Medical Mission Sister Miriam Therese Winter in 1965: “There was a man in Jericho called Zaccheus. There was a man in Jericho called Zaccheus. Now the Hebrews, they were…
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In the Sight of the Angels
In the Sight of the Angels
I remain a parishioner at the church where I was baptized 55 years ago, meaning I have spent well over 2,000 Sunday mornings there. As a child, my mind and my eyes tended to wander, and the stained glass windows provided both entertainment and enlightenment, as they are meant to do. Later, as I struggled to quiet my small children during Mass, I whispered the stories of the saints in those same…
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Abba, Abba Father.
You are the potter; we are the clay, the Work of Your hands . . .
That is the beginning of a song I remember singing often at morning Mass when I was an 8th grader in parochial school. You probably recall the hymnal; it was ubiquitous in the early 80s, and contained many songs composed almost entirely of Bible verses. To this day, one song or another will frequently come…
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What Are Your Idols?
What Are Your Idols?
We may not be worshipping golden statues or sacrificing people to Baal nowadays, but don’t we let attractive worldly things come between us and God? Perhaps it’s money, or power, or romance, or status, or even being right instead of being kind. You alone know what your idols are, but we all have them.
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https://diocesan.com/jesus-our-one-true-god/
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A Cloud of Witnesses
I first encountered St. John Bosco as a second- or third-grader, in one of the old Catholic readers that even then were going out of fashion. We read that he used juggling and acrobatic feats as a way to attract the attention of street children so that he could share Jesus with them. I was intrigued by the story of a Saint who knew how to have fun, and who made evangelization fun! But that is…
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On the Feast of Stephen
This was my last post for the Diocesan.com Inspire Daily feature of the MyParish app. I appreciated the opportunity but ultimately had to cut back on some commitments because life is hard, y’all. You can find all my Inspire Daily posts here.
Yesterday was a joyful day of celebrating the birth of our Savior. Today the Church opens a window into a bleaker future of the persecution and martyrdom…
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What Dreams May Come
Modern dream interpretation is based on psychology and our understanding of the unconscious mind. If I were going to take a shot at interpreting Nebuchadnezzar’s dream as Daniel does in today’s first reading, I would suggest that he fears the loss of his power, that no matter how big he builds himself up to be, he could lose it all in an unexpected way. Daniel interprets the dream as a prophetic…
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Spirit-Led Sabbath
When I was a little girl I read all the Little House on the Prairie books over and over. I remember being deeply impressed by the rules for Sabbath behavior back in those days. Not only was nonessential work forbidden, any sort of fun was too. Children who resisted were punished swiftly and severely. Sundays were long, boring, and miserable.
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Preparing the Way
God delights in us because He loves us. We do not need to do anything to earn His love—in fact, there is nothing we COULD do to earn it. But how can we thank him? How can we praise Him? How can we share this gift of love with others?
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Preparing the Way / Preparando el Camino
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A Life Ruled by Fear
I first encountered the story of the Passion of St. John the Baptist in the Bible I received from my godparents when I made my First Holy Communion. I sometimes think I am remembering wrong because the horrifying picture of his head on a platter seems like an image the editors might have chosen to omit from a children’s Bible! But predictably I was fascinated by that picture, and I have many…
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Jesus, Sun of Justice
Jesus, Sun of Justice
We all long for justice. Children are born with this innate desire—they are obsessed with fairness until their parents tell them enough times that the world is not fair. Well, it is a fallen world so that is unfortunately true. But I have never said this to my own children. Instead, I say this: “The world is not fair but we have to try to be.” We must not fall prey to the temptation to think…
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