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The Wooden Beam

Pile of wooden beams

In the Gospel for Friday of the 23rd Week, we have the famous image of the beam in one’s eye. Jesus gives us a teaching about self knowledge.

September 11, 2020
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Good Measure

Measuring tapes

The Gospel for Thursday of Week 23 is a challenging statement about Christian love. We are to love everyone.

September 10, 2020
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September

Calendar open to the month of September marked with "Back to School"

These early days of September have a certain “feel” about them. Do you have the same experience? It is something about endings and beginnings. September 1st is merely a date on the calendar, but seems to carry some weight, especially aligned with Labor Day.

September 3, 2020
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Racism

Color photograph of 1960s civil rights protest

Some people say the official Church is not speaking out enough about racism ( and some would include abortion, militarism, sexism, human trafficking, immigration, homophobia… never “enough” said about these and other topics). As far as racism goes, I am an older white guy, and so probably not qualified. But I could speak about myself…

August 30, 2020
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Turtles

Baby turtles

You may recall that earlier this year I reported that the friars here at Capuchin Retreat saw two turtles laying eggs in our flower bed.

August 28, 2020
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Wondering

Woman wearing face mask

The former CBS commentator, Andy Rooney, would often begin his comments with: “Did you ever wonder . . . ?” I wonder about a lot of things. Maybe you do, too.

August 18, 2020
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Vale of Tears

Pietà by Michelangelo

In the traditional prayer to the Blessed Mother, the Salve Regina or “Hail, Holy Queen,” we refer to ourselves as “mourning and weeping in this vale of tears.” When I was much younger and more naive, I used to think of this as too negative an attitude about our lives and religion. Too heavy. Too sad.

August 12, 2020
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