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Five Minute Friday: New
Welcome to my first Five Minute friday! Today, for five minutes, I just write whatever comes to mind. No editing, no tinkering. Today's prompt is 'new'. GONew. Outside my window it's about to start...
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Normal Rockwell Mary, Queen of Heaven
I love this painting of Mary. It reminds of something between a Norman Rockwell scene and a 1930s children’s book. Not your typical Mary painting. But I like it because she reminds of these scenes, so...
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Brief Merton post
We are words that are meant to respond to Him, to answer Him, to echo Him, and even in some way to contain and signify Him. Contemplation is this echo. It is a deep resonance in the inmost center of...
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Let it be
Today has been a rough day. Every year on this day, we Americans, New Yorkers, remember where we were, what we were doing. Everyone marks this day in their own way. And now it's been ten long years,...
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Ode to Autumn
Courtesy of La Tartine GourmandeI love the changing of the seasons. There's a kind of sadness that you feel in your blood, the changing of your body rhythms, night, day. Watching the resplendence of...
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when God uses glee and st. john of the cross in the same sentence
Bear with me, there is a method to the madness.We must then dig deeply in Christ. He is like a rich mine with many pockets containing treasures: however deep we dig we will never find their end or...
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virgin is the new mermaid
At first I laughed. When I saw the promo for a new TLC "reality" show called "The Virgin Diaries" featuring that goofy altar kiss, I laughed like everybody else. When I saw it again on Ellen, I laughed...
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7 Quick Takes Friday (vol. 1)
1. My first Quick Takes post ever! I thought it would be fun to do one right before Christmas because I probably won't be blogging again, or around the blogosphere, much until 2012. So yesterday I...
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Goodbye, 2011!
As I am writing this, I am sitting here, quarantined in my room. I caught something from one of my perpetually ill cousins this Christmas and, so, there you have it. No mind, I will just have to...
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the tree of life my soul hath seen
I almost died as a baby. I was born with the umbilical cord wrapped around my neck and in a very dangerous position. The midwife delivering me, quickly and carefully removed and cut through the...
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life at the bottom of the sea
Nothing ever works out the way you think it will, does it?You should see my list of things I was going to do this Lent, that I made on Ash Wednesday. I was going to be more Catholic than the Pope. And...
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7 Quick Takes Friday (Vol. 2)
1. It's been so long since I did one of these! No matter, I'm going to proceed as if I've been doing it forever. This week has been kind of weird as I continue hanging out in limbo here. The job I...
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7 Quick Takes Friday (Vol. 3)
1. Fourth week of Lent, everyone! Easter is almost upon us. It's time to gear up for the Triduum and Holy Week and get ready to receive the waterfall of graces Christ wants to pour out over us! What...
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thoughts for a sunday
Suppose a musician in an orchestra freely strikes a sour note. The conductor is competent, the music is correctly scored and easy to play, but the musician still exercises his freedom by introducing a...
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7 Quick Takes Friday (Vol. 4)
1. Nothing for a month and then suddenly...bam! So much has happened to me this week that I'm still journaling and processing and thanking and blessing and wishing I could go back to Monday and live it...
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the ballad of judas iscariot
You begin on the sea.There is only you on this boat, you and another. By your feet, cold, wet fish flop helplessly, as their life leaves them. The air itself is salty, sticky on your skin, and warm....
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an ode to the brothers ratzinger
As young women, as young people, as young Catholics, starting our lives in this New Millenium we are so often bombarded with this culture's idea of how we should live our lives.We're told that wealth,...
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the book of mercy
image from hereWe were at Friendly's. Home from college, old high school buddies. Maybe we were a little too loud, a little too boisterous. The waitress had been rude the whole meal, was slow with the...
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for now, so long Dick Clark
I spend way too much time thinking about death.It hasn't always been this way, but since I more or less hit adulthood it's kind of become a thing. So today, when I heard the incomparable Dick Clark had...
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7 quick takes Friday (Vol. 5)
1.Wow - it's been a looong time since my last 'quick takes'. Since anything, really. Nothing much has been going on here although I am starting to feel the anxiety and reality of the fact that in just...
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he's got the whole world
I held it in my hand, the pale green, cheerfully colored box. The one, tiny pale yellow pill. I flipped through the glossy, mini guidebook, to make sure...to make sure what I don't know, I just needed...
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7 quick takes (vol. 6)
1.) Last week found me in a very strange place. A Piggly Wiggly's, to be exact. And this place: I really like grits. Just sayin'.And here too:That girl! Where did she come from?!?!Where is this...
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lord, have your way
I've been thinking a lot lately about surrender. About Jesus, the Good Shepherd. About following wherever He leads.Like St. Augustine, I have long tired of running from Him. It's the scariest thing to...
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7 quick takes {v. 7}
1. Is it just me or did this week feel reeeeaaaalllly llloooonnngggg? I think it's because of the Fourth of July. Speaking of which, did you all see that video from San Diego where, due to a computer...
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7 quick takes {special edition} {also vol. 8}
Normally, and because of the genius of Jen Fulwiler, I devote these quick takes to my takes on the week, any happenings in my life and/or pop culture. This week I'm going to shake things up a bit. I'm...
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