A traveler spotted three men laying bricks. He asked the first man what he was doing. “I’m laying bricks.” The second man said he was “putting up a wall.” The third man was “building a cathedral.” Let’s explore.
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Getting Personal About Life Choices
I have no recollection of the initial life choice my parents made in my name. But they set me on a path I still walk 85 years later. It led me to unexpected of a life choice to be a Vincentian.
What is the largest conversation in the world?
What is the largest and longest conversation in the world?
In 2019, Pope Francis set in motion a three-year conversation among 1.3 billion Catholics.
Pope Francis – the challenge of “littleness” and dialogue
Pope Francis say ‘Littleness is where God is” … Let us ask ourselves” can we accept the challenge of littleness.
“By the coming of Jesus, the Person of the Word made flesh, into our world, God showed us the way of encounter and dialogue. Indeed, he made that way incarnate in himself, so that we might know it and follow it, in trust and hope.
Pope Francis – Holy Innocents Today
Like Joseph… we need courage to guard from the new Herods of our time, who devour the innocence of our children.
Are We There Yet?
What do we know… and not know about the Holy Family? What can we learn from the Feast of the Holy Family?
Christmas Conversations, Challenges, and Blessings
Christmas has many dimensions. Christmas gatherings spark conversations at many levels – past, present, and future.
Who Is Pope Francis Listening To?
Who have you listened to and been nourished by this Advent?
Secular writers or social influencers?
Scriptures, the Sunday gospels, or homilies?
Your conscience?
A spiritual director?
A combination of the above?
The Visitation as “Paying it forward”
In the annunciation of our Baptism, we are challenged to be Christ-bearers, to be Christ in the midst of our ordinary lives.
Mary’s visitation challenges us to “pay it forward”, to visit and encounter our neighbor.
Who Wants To Change Your Way of Thinking?
Everybody wants to change our way of thinking. Does God? What change of thinking is God asking about how we live?
Have We Outgrown Nativity Scenes?
Many of us either witnessed or were participants as children in appropriate costumes and props re-enacted the Nativity scene.
As adults we grew beyond these re-enactments.
Something Pope Francis wrote reminds me to think about recognizing that we act out various roles in our daily life.
Giving Up Playing God?
Which approach is ours?
Giving up and walking away?
Giving up thinking we can do it on our own?
The Baptist I Never Knew
John the Baptist is the only saint in the calendar, apart from the mother of Jesus, to have two days set apart in his honor. He is featured in six Sunday Gospels in the three year Advent cycle.