Still Beige and What Happened to Fraternal Correction?

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-rq2bk-1b60df5

I guess this is a kind of repeated lamentation. Not even small things are corrected in a Church, coming in late, leaving early, talking, chewing gum, drinking lattes, demanding no bells or smells (incense) because of personal taste and needs. How then can we deal with the big thing if we can’t talk to people about the smaller ones?

Self Sufficient Elder Woman Meets Jesus (Right After the Rich Young Man)

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-4f7bu-1b260bc

As I have no doubt mentioned before, I have been working on the Ignatian Exercises on and off for a couple of years at least. Fr. Ed Broom, OMV (Oblates of the Virgin Mary) who does online and live retreats on the Exercises just recently released a book doing the exercises by yourself. I was on the Seventh Week when I was doing notes for this podcast entry, and I decided to try doing a version of the Rich Young Man, with me in a kind of dream sequence, I guess, of being the Self-Sufficient Elder Woman. After a lot of initial reverie about other things, that was the crux of this effort. 

Be A God Botherer

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-5itnn-1961ba9

With the evil all around us, it is time for us happily to take on the label of what is usually an aspersion, God Botherers. The murders and all manner of vile behavior around us is not an act of God, but the act of us, sinners. We brought the chaos into the world at the beginning. We keep on keeping on, though clearly we are destroying ourselves, and our souls. So pick up the standard, for GOD, not for the devil. 

The Paradox of Suffering Even Catholics Don’t Always Get

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-d8p78-18f1673

When Catholics lament about their sufferings (just like everyone else) they are kid of missing the point of the faith to which they purportedly adhere. We Christians were Baptized into the Suffering of Christ, and with that Baptism, we are supposed to see that Suffering is transformed. It’s a big thing to miss, and one we need to truly give our real assent to in order to travel the narrow road. 

The Bitter Burden of our (Seeming) Impermanence

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-prj54-18be3ce

You get older. There is no avoiding that there is more past than future for you. That’s a struggle for the non-believer, and even the believer. The losses around you and the losses in your own life make it something that you can’t just push aside. Some imperfect thoughts from one Catholic’s perspective.