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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? 

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-i35sa-160d1ac Today I had an adventure. I almost got to where I wanted to, to venerate the Relic of St. Jude. But there were obstacles. Still, there was spiritual success of a kind.

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-28xhk-15dee1c Newman said “To be steeped in history is to cease to be Protestant.” That’s another way of saying that to be steeped in history is to be Catholic. But maybe more than that to be steeped in history is to cease to be an unbeliever of any stripe. But to become steeped in historyContinue reading “To Be Steeped in History”

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-9tjh5-15d04dd We just celebrated the Death, Burial and Resurrection of Our Lord? What changed because of His action? Often does not seem like anything has. But look closer.

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ufqhs-15adb09 Things look so dark in the times in which we find ourselves. It has ever been thus, but God is there, the Word is there having been crucified and risen and ascended and will not leave us adrift—we are not forsaken, ever. 

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-hd73d-1593bef It’s been about two months since the last new podcast episode. Today offering thoughts about pain, suffering and eternal life. The usual!

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-5kwft-1514ff5 Taking a hiatus. God bless. Maybe see you again in the Spring.