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Showing posts with label Spreading Happiness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spreading Happiness. Show all posts
Sunday, July 19, 2015

Sunday is for Heaven

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In my mind, the Sunday or feast day celebration is about two things, or two sides of this coin: First, we unite ourselves as deeply as ...
Sunday, April 12, 2015

Little People

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I was on retreat this weekend, and the retreat master closed the last conference with this poem. It perfectly sums up how we are called to ...
Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Read This Book! Everything is Grace:The Life and Way of Therese of Lisieux

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I have just finished reading the book Everything Is Grace: The Life and Way of Therese of Lisieux by Joseph F. Schmidt, FSC. I can't...
Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Whose Responsibility is My Happiness?

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Earlier this week, a friend of mine shared the article " 10 Things Happy Families Do Differently. " The picture with it caught my ...
Tuesday, October 01, 2013

St. Therese and the Vocation to be Love

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St. Therese strikes again. I have to admit that in many ways I have more of a personal affinity for St. Theresa Benedicta of the Cross as ...
Wednesday, April 10, 2013

He Passed the Trial by Fire

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Last night I saw Michael Nesmith in concert in Pittsburgh. It was a surreal experience in many ways. My husband and I approached the ven...
Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Things Yet to Come

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Advent has my heart about ready to explode. Truly, I have this spiritual throbbing sense that I imagine is comparable to what kids feel when...
Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Some Profound Morning Thoughts about Hair

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Yesterday I was on the phone with someone whom I apparently have met but can't quite picture. She told me she knew our neighbors, and ad...
Friday, September 14, 2012

St. Thérèse and the Man Thing

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Recently I finished reading Story of a Soul , the autobiography of St. Thérèse . I was waiting for the lightening bolts of grace to crash t...
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Friday, November 18, 2011

For the Brothers of St. Cecilia

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This is the song I wrote for week five of my Autumn Songwriting Challenge.This represents my having learned to use a Grace Tape2USB machine,...
Friday, December 24, 2010

My Christmas Eve Conversion Story

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I have a rare opportunity this Christmas Eve evening to sit down in silence and write. Tonight my heart is pounding against what contains me...
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Sunday, November 28, 2010

Choosing Happiness

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I'm still feeling a bit stunned by an experience I had tonight while watching a movie. I want to just hold on to that for now, so that...
Sunday, September 26, 2010

Contemplating the Angels

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I have had angels on my radar screen of late. Ok, that sounds a bit weird. I think it began when a friend made a passing comment about how ...
Sunday, July 04, 2010

What Does "Poverty" Mean?

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One of the things I love about social media like blogs and Facebook is coming across quotations that friends (or strangers) share. I come ac...
Sunday, June 27, 2010

Of Bicycles and Resurrection

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This week I had an experience that leaves me in awe at the One who orchestrates my life. I couldn't dream this stuff up or try really ha...
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Monday, April 05, 2010

Easter Ponderings

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It is Easter Monday. He is risen! Alleluia! I am enjoying a very restful day and reviewing the events and stirrings of the Triduum, of Lent,...
Saturday, December 26, 2009

Gaudete!

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Courtesy of my four-year-old daughter, here is a Christmas Eve video (snippet!) of our choir singing one of my favorite Christmas pieces: Ga...