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Showing posts with label Sorrow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sorrow. Show all posts
Sunday, December 10, 2023

Sorrow is Not Lord

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If I am to take in the lessons of the Seven Sorrows that I have been learning lately, here's the main thing: I need to hold both the re...
Friday, June 30, 2023

Sadness, and Love

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Photo by Jan Axelson Cherokee Marsh, Madison, WI Yesterday, we buried our pastor. There is still a tinge of the surreal to it for me. I'...
Monday, June 26, 2023

I am Sad

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Yesterday, I told a friend, "If grief comes in waves, my waters are pretty choppy right now."  On Saturday evening, the pastor of ...
Tuesday, May 02, 2023

St. Joseph and the Desperation for Consolation

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I was chatting with a priest friend recently about praying the Liturgy of the Hours, and I found that something poked at me like when a meta...
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Wednesday, December 28, 2022

Disturbing Feast Day

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Léon Cogniet (1794-1880), “The Massacre of the Innocents” (photo: Public Domain) I don't like the feast of the Holy Innocents. That was ...
Monday, December 19, 2016

The Anawim of Advent: Infertility

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I remembered it this morning during Mass. "If you struggle with infertility and are already depressed, it's not a good idea to g...
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Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Do Pregnancy Complaints Rip Your Heart Out?

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I have written at length in the past about the unspoken pain many women carry due to infertility. I lived there for five years. Women who ar...
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Friday, December 21, 2012

Thoughts on Responding to Suffering

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Sitting down to the keyboard to see if I can't sort through some thoughts. I'm thinking about how I respond to the suffering of fr...
Sunday, October 28, 2012

Holy Darkness

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This afternoon at the Mass for the Carmelite community's profession, we sang this as the communion hymn. In fact, it was these precise v...
Friday, October 05, 2012

Jealousy and the Zero-Sum Game

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Some years ago, a woman on an infertility forum I was in made a very profound point that makes more sense to me as time passes. You see, thi...
Wednesday, September 12, 2012

This, Too

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This, too, is the face of my well-Beloved. You called to me, oh Lord, and for three years I've followed you. Your words tugged ...
Wednesday, August 17, 2011

The Meaning Series: Holy Mary

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I'm really in the habit of laying my heart on the line in this blog, and why stop now?! Doing so helps me try to be honest with myself -...
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Friday, December 17, 2010

A Miscarriage Anniversary... Gift

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Some days simply have so many joyful bits and deep important things happening in them that I feel like I go around with my arms full of jewe...
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Sunday, May 31, 2009

THIS IS NOT THE WAY!

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Notorious abortion provider shot dead. This is really dreadful. I'm just speechless. Lord, have mercy on us all.
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Friday, January 23, 2009

Obama Overturns Mexico City Policy

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President Obama today sign[ed] an order that will put hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars into t...
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Friday, December 19, 2008

Blood Test Result

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Negative.
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Thursday, December 18, 2008

What Can You Call a Post Like This...

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A lot has happened since my last post. Wednesday morning I figured I'd gulp deep and dip into my dwindling store of pregnancy tests I bo...
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Thursday, October 16, 2008

Please pray for these families

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Yesterday, my friend's 21 month old son was found face down in his aunt's pool. Details. Please join in praying.
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Friday, September 19, 2008

Yet Another Serious Reason to Avoid Socialized Medicine

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Baroness Warnock: Dementia sufferers may have a "duty to die" The veteran Government adviser said pensioners in mental decline are...
Saturday, August 16, 2008

Antoinette Juliano, Requiescat in Pace

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A friend of our family passed away this morning. Antoinette was a member of our parish. I met her about two years ago through a parish pro...
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