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Month: January 2020

Thoughts on a Frigid Morn

It is minus 38 or so in Edmonton, without wind chill, too cold even for the penguins in their zoo; they have multiple feet of snow in Vancouver; minus twentysomething here where I write. The glaciers are doing quite fine. But global warming, global cooling, climate change, continues, and Greta’s gettin’ angrier. Anon, on to[…]

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Abbot Anthony’s Narrow Way

Saint Anthony (+356) is commonly called ‘the Abbot’, or Anthony ‘of Egypt’, where he retreated to the wilderness as a young man to live completely devoted to God and His Christ. His eponym as the ‘Abbot’ is given to him as the founder of that perfect and narrow living out of the imitation of Christ[…]

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A Steadfast Spirit

A Steadfast SpiritGive me a steadfast spirit, Lord. Endurance. In it for the long haul. Every one of us can recall a goal we worked towards that caused much discomfort in the process. It could be training an entire year for a big race. Or a project at work that took long days and nights, and every […]

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Memorial of Saint Anthony, abbot

Reading 1 1 Sm 8:4-7, 10-22a

All the elders of Israel came in a body to Samuel at Ramah
and said to him, “Now that you are old,
and your sons do not follow your example,
appoint a king over us, as other nations have, to judge us.”

Samuel was disple…

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Wondering and Wandering in a Cemetery

Wondering and Wandering in a CemeteryPerhaps it’s my age…approaching 76 as this is written. Or my heritage…Irish Catholic. Or my curiosity about people…living or deceased. Regardless of the reason, I enjoy the peacefulness of walking around a cemetery on a sunlit spring, summer or fall day. It’s not a sad experience for me. Rather, it’s not uncommon for me (if […]

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Wondering and Wandering in a Cemetery

Wondering and Wandering in a CemeteryPerhaps it’s my age…approaching 76 as this is written. Or my heritage…Irish Catholic. Or my curiosity about people…living or deceased. Regardless of the reason, I enjoy the peacefulness of walking around a cemetery on a sunlit spring, summer or fall day. It’s not a sad experience for me. Rather, it’s not uncommon for me (if […]

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Italian bishops decry anti-Semitism (SIR)

“Anti-Semitism is the most tragic manifestation of a form of exclusion that in our society is expressed in the hatred of strangers, intolerance of immigrants, racism, rejection of the weakest, the poorest, the elderly,’ said Bishop Ambrogio…

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