Showing posts with label prayer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label prayer. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 4, 2017

Thoughts and Prayers: The American Way of Evading Meaningful Action Through Resort to Meaningless "Religious" Nonsense

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The first truckload of thoughts and prayers prepares to leave for Las Vegas. This should resolve our mass shooting problem. pic.twitter.co...
Friday, February 3, 2017

"A Conscience That Is Not Awake to Suffering and Fails to Respond Is Walled Off from the Love of God": Commentary on Trump and Religious Issues

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With his performance at yesterday's National Prayer Breakfast (an event organized by the shadowy anti-LGBT group calling itself ...
Tuesday, May 6, 2014

The Supreme Court on Christian-Specific "Ceremonial Prayer" in the Public Square: My Take

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Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy on religion-specific (i.e., Christian-specific ) prayer at public meetings in the U.S., by way...
Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Cold Water (and Sacraments) on a Summer's Day

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Steve and I have just returned from bringing a copy of my book Fiat Flux: The Writings of Wilson R. Bachelor, Nineteenth-Century Coun...
Thursday, October 18, 2012

Ten Points about Love as the Signpost Along the Way: Retreat Notes, Day Three

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Pilgrim Feet More reflections from this period of retreat--which I offer with some concern that I'm foisting on others what are...
Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Signposts Along the Way: Retreat Notes, Day Two

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Pilgrim Feet I've been thinking, as Steve and I talk and walk, or sit together in silence, about signposts along the way of our...
Monday, October 15, 2012

On Retreat: Notes from the Journey

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Pilgrim Feet Dear Readers, This may be another of those weeks in which I promise to be quiet, and then end up posting a stream ...
Sunday, April 15, 2012

A Life Review, First Week of Easter

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Some spiritual traditions (in the Catholic church, the Ignatian one; in Protestantism, Puritanism) emphasize a practice of ongoing re...
Monday, April 9, 2012

More Marilynne Robinson: Synchronicity, Synergy, and Nature as Shining Garment of Divinity

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Marilynne Robinson finds science's inability to imagine the world analogically, or to speak of what it observes in analogical ter...
Saturday, April 7, 2012

Reflections During the Sacred Triduum: Marilynne Robinson and the Central Narrative of Scripture as Wondrous Love

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I'm also reading Marilynne Robinson's new book  When I Was a Child I Read Books  (NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012) these da...
Thursday, March 22, 2012

Qais Azimy: Speaking the Names of The Dead

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Käthe Kollwitz, "Woman with Dead Child" (1903) Finally this morning, at Common Dreams, Qais Azimy points out that in the...
Saturday, February 25, 2012

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: "Write an Article in Support of Forcing the Followers of Jesus Christ to Pay for Contraception, Sterilization and Abortion"

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My latest dropping from the Catholic birdcage is right here from Bilgrimage.  Earlier this week, one Steven Faludi logged into this blo...
Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Catholic Pastor in Illinois Forced to Resign for Liturgical Creativity

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And, as top leaders of some Christian churches use their high positions and energies to spread toxic lies designed to assist a partic...
Thursday, January 26, 2012

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: Tics, Gesticulations, Swoops, and Flourishes Amidst Liturgical Bedlam

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So many droppings, so little time.  I want to frame today's piece with a snippet that a reader sent to Andrew Sullivan recently.  ...
Wednesday, January 25, 2012

One Pastor's Take on the "New" Liturgy: Fr. Nobert Dlabal on New Trans as Akin to KGB Document

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Father Norbert Dlabal, pastor of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Goodland, KS, and Holy Ghost in Sharon Springs, KS, weighs in on the ...
Saturday, December 31, 2011

TWO Petition Asking Cardinal George to Resign Reaches Goal of 5,000 Signatures

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Quick new year's eve note: I just noticed that the Truth Wins Out petition calling on His Eminence Francis Cardinal George of Ch...
Tuesday, December 27, 2011

We Go to Mass, We Experience the "New" Liturgy, We Leave Shaking Our Heads

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And speaking of the "new" liturgical translations (I just did so in my posting about Michael Iafrate's music): as I...

More Inspirational Music for Christmastime: Michael Iafrate & the Priesthood

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More Christmas-season music (and music for meditation and inspiration all year 'round), and this, too, is a resource provided by ...
Monday, December 26, 2011

More (Post-) Christmas Music: John Bijarney and "Lux Aurumque"

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During the Christmas season, I pointed readers to the beautiful music that one reader of this blog, Fran Schultz, makes available at he...
Sunday, December 25, 2011

The Dream of Home for All: A Christmas Meditation

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Luminarias in Snow Ryōkan* writes, On a journey, each night I stay in a different place but my dream is the same, a dream of home.