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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-tg8yj-13d0ba9 Obviously, one must practice dying every day, every moment, not just during one week. I am being slightly facetious by this title. But the truth is, that this week I had the opportunity, due to a bad cold, to spend time alone, in bed, and consider the path to salvation, which is dying toContinue reading “Practicing Dying (This Week)”

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-k8vca-13c87dc Trying I am to be a little more cheery in my podcast today. So I am focusing on something nice, better than nice, spectacular, the New Heaven and New Earth. That’s where I want to go. How about you?

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-qjzrj-13bdfa6 When Jesus said that His disciples must eat his Body and drink His Blood to have everlasting life, many said that this was too hard. All of life is hard, and it out of that reality, the consequence of sin that He will bring us back to Him. Really receipt of the Body,Blood, SoulContinue reading “Your Sayings Are Hard But You Have the Words of Everlasting Life”

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-8msu3-13b3dda Not for the first time, and not for the last, thinking about the Eucharist, probably because our Parish is hosting a Bible Study on Scott Hahn’s The Lamb’s Supper. How often have you heard that if we knew what really happens at the Mass, and embraced it, we would fall to our knees inContinue reading “Our Unending Source of Joy”

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-tzg42-13a99f8 It’s not that I haven’t considered it before, the hope that a pet goes to heaven and I will see him or her again, but that thought always becomes intense when I lose a pet. I have had many cats, and this week I had to put an elderly beloved boy cat to sleep.Continue reading “Today the Rainbow Bridge is a Comfort”

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-t65i7-13a0c55 How I am, especially during this Lent, trying to stay faithful to prayer. St. Teresa called it “determined determination”. It’s a tall order for this Ordinary Catholic. I bet it is for you too!

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-anid2-139640c I am learning to look at a chore as a golden opportunity, 40 days of penitence to clear away the cobwebs of vanity!

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-n4fqj-138bfba I have been struggling with the Ignatian Exercises. But, this week, I went back to an outline I had been given in my first exposure to the Exercises and I realized that considering the very first thing, the Creation, and my creation, in a way I had not heretofore done, was something of aContinue reading “Prayer: The Key to Union with God Who Is, Was, and Always Will Be Love”

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-md9vv-1376e22 A somewhat discursive episode, borne of a difficult week, and trying to manage to get back on the (spiritual) road.  

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-gy8a8-136c545 We human beings have a knack for giving our evil actions a veneer of good by euphemisms. Ultimately those euphemisms, lies, become the societal reality. I have been watching documentaries about WWII and the atrocities in Germany by the Nazis, doctors, nurses and ordinary people. Folks don’t like the comparison made to abortion. Well,Continue reading “Euphemistic Unholiness”