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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 worldContinue reading “Be A God Botherer”

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, andContinue reading “The Paradox of Suffering Even Catholics Don’t Always Get”

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.

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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-vthti-17abad5 I have lived in Los Angeles over 40 years. I have seen all sorts of natural and man made disasters, most from afar. This one has been right up close and it has been a challenge both practically and spiritually. Some thoughts from this ever struggling Catholic. 

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-hx55r-1792e1a I guess it’s just a reality of age, but yes, I have been thinking of the past, yet again. But I know that well, obviously the past is passing and what is eternal is what I must aim at. 

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-j8uuc-172ddbe The coincidence of the Gospel for the 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time and a little scene in the pews and my reaction. 

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-vtn3j-16d3409 Alas, sometimes when I meditate I tie myself into knots. Some thoughts about that in this episode and how to get untied. 

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-eeuqr-16a8304 It was, as I will report, a busy June and July and so a little of what’s been going on in my spiritual life. . . .trying to become a woman of prayer.

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-nu5ia-162b9b8 Thoughts about the things that jar me in the ordinary moments of being a Catholic, that might be or might not be connected. Is my real problem or yours a resistance to the demands of the love of God?