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Job must have been having a real bad day when he said the following, Is not man’s life on earth drudgery? Are not his days those of a hireling? He is a slave who longs for the shade, A hireling who waits for his wages. “So I have been assigned months of misery, and troubled […]

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Dear Sloggers, Part 3

I do not know how many more of these are to be written. So I want to take this opportunity of thanking all of you who have contributed in any way in making this tough slog, less of a slog. Sometimes it has been a very mysterious enjoyable one. Never dull. I do not know […]

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Dear Sloggers, Part 2

I get really excited, even at this age, when I read something that just makes me go WOW, I came across the fact, that sometimes we look, but do not see, hear, but do not listen, know but do not understand. That has been my guiding star, leading me into previously unknown realities, or seeing […]

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Dear fellow, “wonder-full, “awe-full,” sloggers,

The Advent-Christmas-Epiphany Season of 2018-2019 has again afforded us another opportunity to delve into the mystery of who we are, Whose presence we have been called to be, and Who has done this calling. This involves action on our part. Each mass I celebrate I make sure the assembly repeat, “O god, help me to […]

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Happy New Year

Many times “stuff” gets in the way of what is really important. When that “stuff” disappears then we are left with the gifts of who we are and who we are to one another. Then the real giving begins. We can get wrapped up, no pun intended, in all the externals we miss out on […]

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A Gift

We are in the midst of celebrating, “there is nothing profane for her/him who knows how to see.” Because of the advent of The Word, into His own creation, the whole meaning of creation is radically changed. A dignity, previously hinted at, is now revealed, presented to us, in its mysterious wonder-full-ness. This cannot be […]

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Beauty in Growth

“On that day, a shoot shall spout from the stump of Jesse, and from his roots a bud shall blossom. The spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him: a spirit of wisdom and understanding, a spirit of counsel and of strength, a spirit of knowledge and of fear of the Lord, and his delight […]

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Tis the Season…Surprise

This year we have already been blessed and gifted with a surprise gift. This gift has appeared before the official, giving season. This gift is intended to enrich us individually, and collectively. The gift is the gift of a wish, “a dream.” It comes tous from our Pastor-in chief, Pope Francis. In his writing of […]

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A New Beginning

Advent 2018, never before, never again, has come to us, here and now, with an eternal newness. A newness that always challenges us to put on a new set of lenses so we will have the faith and courage to let go of the certainty and the security of the past. For what purpose? So […]

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The Gift of Time

“Look not backward in anger, forward in fear, but around in awareness,” is something I read many years ago. As we approach the end of the Liturgical Year it is good, no necessary, to keep these words front and center. Why? Well as we listen to the scriptures, about the end of time, we can […]

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