March 2013
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Every Lent, when I get to about the 4th Sunday, I think it really should be over, and the remaining weeks seem impossibly long. It's ridiculous, because I'm not making any great sacrifices. I'm not very good at all at self-denial. But now we're at the 5th Sunday, and Holy Week never seems like exactly…
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So far almost everything I’ve read about Pope Francis has been very encouraging, and there seems to be very good reason to expect very good things from him. However, there is one small storm cloud on my personal horizon, and that of everyone involved in the Anglican Ordinariate. The Anglican bishop of Argentina claims that…
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In honor of the election of Pope Francis, and suggested by Sally Thomas’s comment on this post of Janet’s, I will take a break from my Lenten musical fast, and offer you this, from that great penitent Franz Liszt. Has anyone heard definitive word on which Francis(es) Pope Francis has in mind?
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A Jesuit who takes the name Francis? "thought to be close to Comunione e Liberazione"? "known for personal humility, doctrinal conservatism and a commitment to social justice"? "lives in a small apartment, rather than in the palatial bishop's residence?" (Wikipedia) I don't think I even knew his name before today, but sounds very good.
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Janet has a good one at The Three Prayers.
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I have been trying to write something about this for more than a week now, but there's so much I could say about it that I haven't been able to get started in the brief snatches of time I've had available. So I'm going to give up and just point you elsewhere. The topic is…
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But, astonishingly, some of his supporters still insist that he did the right thing.
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Advice from a spambot: "Continue to maintain up the extremely fantastic operate." Ok, I'll do my best.
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I hate Daylight Savings Time, and I’m not the only one. Not so much the thing itself, but the switchover to it in the spring. I deeply resent being forced to get up an hour earlier.
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This was the view from my office window on a rainy day some weeks ago. The truck belongs to a co-worker. It's not really little, compared to traditional pick-ups, of course (Little Blue Truck is the name of a children's book). It really stands out among the generally dull-colored cars in the parking lot. I'm not…
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