n. 1: a penitential period beginning four Sundays before Christmas. 2: the coming of Christ. 3: a coming into being or use. “…Brothers and sisters: you know the time; it is the hour now for you to awake from sleep. Fr our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed; the night is […]
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Bible Thought / Faith
HEBREWS 13
“Let…charity…abide in you. And hospitality do not forget; for by this some, being not aware of it, have entertained angels…”—Hebrews 13: 1-2 I read these words to end a morning moment, and as it ends, I wonder: how often are we visited in this life? How often, unknowing—or through veil of partial […]
Faith / Journal Pages
A BAD MAN
I believe God sends us messages and signs when we are open to their receiving. I believe he sends rebukes when needed just as he sends encouragement when that is what our spirits need. To be open to the messages is to allow God to speak to the pieces and nature within us that […]
Faith / Short Story
JOB
Emmanual walked with his angel in place of solitude protected by folds and rollings of the earth, away from any man’s sight, and where only Heaven above could see. The pastures were low grazed save the tops of Indiangrass and bluestem bunches whose course late-season stems were avoided by the ranging cattle leaving their […]
Bible Thought / Faith
THE FEAST OF SAINT MATTHEW
This past Wednesday was the Feast of Saint Matthew. I learned this when going to a set of readings for a daily mass on USCCB. I won’t pretend to know much about him (only reading the day’s gospel did I remember/learn he was a tax collector), but Saint Matthew is special to me because […]
Faith / Short Story
JOHN 12
“Amen, amen I say to you, unless the grain of wheat falling into the ground die, itself remaineth alone. But if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world, keepeth it unto life eternal. If any man minister […]
Faith / Journal Pages
THROUGH THE DECADES
I remember, as a child, they were always there. They would save us a pew as my mother and father worked to ready my sister and I for mass, and we arrived “right on time” or “just a little late”—same as I do with our children now. My grandmother and grandfather were there; […]
Faith / Poetry
LIGHT OF THE WORLD
Where, and how, do you feel God? Where, and how, do you find peace? The Light of the World gifts these to me.