Feast of the Visitation

From today’s Gospel: When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the infant leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth, filled with the Holy Spirit, cried out in a loud voice and said, “Most blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb.” For some reason, this feast touches my heart in some inexplicable way, [...]

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Pentecost at Gesu (and making music)

I’ll bet those of you who know about my love affair with my worship community were wondering when I’d get around to a post on our Pentecost celebration… First, I have to tell you that this feast is one of two Sundays (Christ the King is the other) when Gesu cancels the 8:00 and 10:30 [...]

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Putting the “techie” stuff at the service of the mission…

Ok, so this sounds more noble than saying I was playing around to avoid having to do my “work” work… Can I get away with saying it wasn’t avoidance, but just a break? Anyway, from our last Chapter back in 2003, we had four Chapter Initiatives. The committee I signed up for was for Initiative [...]

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Exercise, and art appreciation, too!

During my weekend trip to Chicago, I had the lovely opportunity to go for a bike ride with a friend among the many sculptures at the Skokie Northshore Sculpture Park. It was just as close and a lot less crowded than the lakeshore. I found myself wishing that Detroit had more spots like this. Here’s [...]

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Giddy can be good…

I just returned from a trip to Chicago for the weekend – went by way of Grand Rapids to bring Natty along for the ride…it was worth adding a few extra miles to have the company on an otherwise boring drive. Some construction delays near the Michigan/Indiana border prompted us to hop off I-94 and [...]

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“Fierce with reality”

In the process of doing my reading assignment for the workshop I mentioned in yesterday’s post, I came across the following quote by Florida Scott-Maxwell (The Measure of My Days, 1983): “You need to claim the events in your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which [...]

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Welcome to CADE colleagues

To my regulars…please excuse me while I extend a brief welcome to any colleagues who find their way here from the CADE course website. Feel free to poke around, leave some comments and participate in any conversations that may get going from time to time. In case you are wondering, CADE is an online course [...]

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Mother’s Day Proclamation – 1870

by Julia Ward Howe Arise then…women of this day! Arise, all women who have hearts! Whether your baptism be of water or of tears! Say firmly: “We will not have questions answered by irrelevant agencies, Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage, For caresses and applause. Our sons shall not be taken [...]

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A perspective on immigration reform

This week’s Sunday Detroit Free Press had a thought-provoking column in the issue of comprehensive immigration reform by Brian Dickerson. I highly recommend reading it in its entirety, but here’s a brief excerpt: I understand the argument that those who partake of public services should bear their fair share of the cost — although I [...]

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A remarkable man

I just want to recommend to you the web site of Bill, a 53-year old man who keeps a blog called “Dying Man’s Daily Journal.” He is blogging his way through his process of dying, in the hopes that his story will be of some help to others. It’s no surprise to me that he [...]

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