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Eat, Pray, Love – India

Posted in Book Reviews, Just my Thoughts, Religion, tagged , , , , on 30 August 2010 | 2 Comments »

Yes, yes.  I am behind.  While BlogHER caused the first delay (no, I didn’t attend but Maria did), my mother being in town for a two week vacation caused my personal delay in my sticking with the Eat, Pray, Love postings.  Here’s the background. Maria of BOREDMommy fame is reading and writing about Elizabeth Gilbert’s [...]

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Giving and Receiving

Posted in Just my Thoughts, Religion, tagged , , , , , , on 20 July 2010 | 18 Comments »

I was sitting in church yesterday, listening to Deacon George’s homily.  Okay, I admit I don’t know if people other than priests give homilies but Deacon George was talking about the readings of the day and really hitting home with me.  And while I couldn’t tell you exactly what the verses were I will explain [...]

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Faith and Religion

Posted in Family, Just my Thoughts, Religion, tagged , , on 30 April 2010 | 23 Comments »

People tend to use these two words – faith and religion – interchangeably.  Not me!  I have a great faith.  It is strong and has helped me make it through many trials in my life.  It is a faith in a higher being but it is also a faith in my fellow men and women. [...]

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Good Friday

Posted in Just my Thoughts, Religion, tagged , , on 2 April 2010 | 2 Comments »

I have memories of Good Friday services as a child.  When I spoke of them to my 15 year old yesterday, he was flabbergasted.  I told him of a service at church that went from noon until 3 pm.  Number six could not fathom being in church for three hours.  He asked just what went [...]

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Palm Sunday

Posted in Just my Thoughts, Religion, tagged , , , on 29 March 2010 | 12 Comments »

Today is Palm Sunday.  The church has been decorated in purple during the five previous weeks of Lent.  Purple for the desert.  Purple for the waiting.  Purple in anticipation of what is to come. Today, if nothing else, people who walked into the church would have noticed the red.  People would also notice the fresh [...]

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Confirmation

Posted in Just my Thoughts, Religion, tagged , , , on 28 March 2010 | 2 Comments »

Confirmation – an affirmation of a belief, a piece of evidence.  These are standard definitions.  I am, though, referring to one of the Rites of Initiation in the Catholic Church.  On March 18th, the Bishop came to town to confirm my son’s class.  There were 22 young people who were ready to take a more [...]

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Temptations in the Desert and Our Lives

Posted in Just my Thoughts, Religion, tagged , , , , on 23 February 2010 | 11 Comments »

I have been following, and jumping in with both feet, as Ronna Detrick stays in the desert this Lenten season.  You can imagine my surprise when the homily at Mass yesterday dealt with the temptations that were put to Christ while he was in the desert.  I don’t want temptations.  I want to be in [...]

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Ash Wednesday

Posted in Just my Thoughts, Religion, tagged , , on 18 February 2010 | 7 Comments »

I know.  That was yesterday.  How can I be writing on Thursday about yesterday?  Do you read a newspaper – online or in print?  Aren’t you reading about yesterday?  Anyway, I wanted to talk about the irony pointed out during my priest’s homily yesterday. I have long been a student of literary elements.  I like [...]

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A Love List to My Life

Posted in Family, Fitness, Just my Thoughts, Religion, tagged , , , , on 12 February 2010 | 26 Comments »

Between Kelly Diels‘s Operation Secret Valentine, Momalom‘s Love It Up Challenge, a post on How to Write a Love List at Em and Lo‘s and Big Little Wolf‘s suggestions for celebrating V Day on a budget, I am again thinking about love and today about my life.  So, here is my love list to my [...]

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Dear Father

Posted in Just my Thoughts, Religion, tagged , on 11 February 2010 | 10 Comments »

The letter below is inspired by the women at Momalom.com.  They come up with some of the best ideas for blog posts.  This blog challenge is to write a love letter to a person, to a thing, to the world and share it on your own blog or on their blog if you need to.  You [...]

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