Vol I, 1st Sunday of Advent

Saturday I performed my ritual of changing my breviary from Vol lV to Vol 1 – the Advent and Christmas season.  It is a ritual because I transfer all my little prayer cards and frequently used readings inserts.  I have to reset my ribbons and somehow the colors do not match up from one book to [...]

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Thanksgiving & Grace Before Meals with Fr. Leo

When I set about thinking what to share with my readers for Thanksgiving, out came the news that more episodes of Fr. Leo Patalinghug’s “Grace Before Meals” were being released on SQPN.  Fr. Leo is currently on faculty at Mount Saint Mary’s Seminary and directs the Pastoral Field Education Program for future priests. Fr. Leo [...]

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Advent Candles & Christmas Lights

We are still two weeks away from the first Sunday of Advent and my neighbors began putting up their Christmas lights a week ago.  Perhaps this will be all that goes up this year.  Missing so far are the carousel, snow globe, and santa’s sleigh.  I fully expected to see more this weekend but nothing [...]

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Funerals, Black Vestments, & Cemetery Musings

November arrived with All Saints on Saturday (squeezed into the 8:30AM Mass) and All Souls on Sunday.  Monday afternoon arrived with news of the death of an aunt.  We traveled to South Georgia for the funeral on Thursday.  My dad has a large family — five sisters and three brothers.  Actually, a sixth sister who [...]

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