First Sunday of Lent – Reflections on a Childhood Memory

Yesterday’s Gospel had me remembering the children’s missal I had back in about 2nd grade (perhaps even earlier). Of course, as any book written for that age group, it had illustrations. The one picture I remember from it was the one from the First Sunday of Lent. It showed Jesus with “the Devil”. My recollection [...]

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Busted Halo

Natty was reflecting on the beginning of Lent this week, and mentioned BustedHalo.com as one of her favorite websites. The tagline for this site is, “An online magazine for spiritual seekers in their 20s and 30s.” It seems to me that this site should be recommended (if not required) reading for vocation ministers in religious [...]

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Rend your hearts, not your garments

There are all kinds of images floating aroung in my mind as I reflect on the beginning of this liturgical season. So I ask myself what the are kernels of deeper truth that God is offering to me? Better yet, instead of asking myself, I find myself asking Sophia-Wisdom to be my spirit-guide these days.
It [...]

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Paczki Day

For those of you who are not from the Detroit area, does this mean anything to you?
The reason I ask is that when I moved back to Detroit 10 years ago, I had never heard of this “Fat Tuesday” tradition. It must have gotten started in a big way after I left Detroit in 1982 [...]

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Preparing for Lent

Today’s Gospel is, IMHO, such a key summary of Jesus’ teaching, and also includes some of the most challenging exhortations for me to follow. “Love your enemies, give to everyone, stop judging, forgive…” Part of what makes these challenges so compelling, I think, is the clear evidence that Jesus really practiced what he preached.
It seems [...]

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A truly “techie” post…

I got really excited reading this news item from the WordPress developers. (I know, I need to get a life…)
Why so excited? Well, I had to use in the preparation of my doctoral dissertation over 10 years ago, but then left a Unix world for a Windows campus. Recently, I’ve been working to get [...]

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Meeting Jesus…

To be honest, I’m blanking a bit tonight on what to write about, so I found myself reminiscing about one of the many graced experiences I had while making a 30-day retreat the summer before my first profession.
I believe I was in the 2nd week of the Spiritual Exercises, praying with the scripture passage about [...]

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Was Jesus a “racist”?

I’m picking up on Kari’s reply to my February 7 post, She mentions the Gospel story of Jesus’ encounter with the Canaanite woman, or Syro-Phoenician, depending on which Gospel you are reading. I’ve been thinking about it, that even though it ends well with Jesus praising her great faith and healing her daughter, it bothers [...]

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Head and Heart and Letting Go

Ok, so now I’m sharing something I noticed about myself as I began focusing the content of the blog on the anti-racism work I’m engaged in. It seems to me that when I started feeling some responsibility for having this blog be a resource for folks from our dialogue sessions, I went into my head [...]

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Where did you all go?

Hmmm…no comments from anyone at all in the past week…what shall I make of that? I’m thinking it doesn’t make sense for me to continue the anti-racism thread if it’s only going to be a monologue.
So I’m asking myself, what is it I could share on this blog that would get more conversation going? Well, [...]

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