RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS FOR MONDAY FEBRUARY 26, 2024:
Do an act of kindness for someone and encourage them to pay it forward.
QUESTION FOR MONDAY FEBRUARY 26, 2024:
Never Have I Ever Eaten Only Candy For Dinner.
MANTRA FOR MONDAY FEBRUARY 26, 2024:
I finish what matters and let go of what does not.
Haiku Poem
By: Tara Kimberley Torme
There are days that I
Keep on wondering if I
Really do have friends
Wednesday November 18, 2020
Haiku Poem # 1
By: Tara Kimberley Torme
Concerts at the Pier
Eating chocolate ice-cream
Drinking coffee too
RACHEL TAYLOR’S RESPONSE TO MY HAIKU POEM # 1 FOR WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 18, 2020:
I miss coffee shops
I miss sitting for hours, sip
Reading and sipping
Haiku Poem # 2
By: Tara Kimberley Torme
Your black heart’s filled with
Black ice that gets undearneath
Your skin: cactus pricks.
RACHEL TAYLOR’S RESPONSE TO MY HAIKU POEM # 2 FOR WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 18, 2020:
Getting underneath
My skin is easy, you just
Don’t care that you do
Saint Anthony Novena Day Six: The Preacher
Jun 9, 2022
Pat McCloskey, OFM
Novena to Saint Anthony
A crisis in southern France prompted Anthony’s reassignment there between 1224 and 1227. The town of Albi was ground zero for a group that adamantly regarded everything spiritual as good and everything material as evil.
Therefore, they rejected the Incarnation, the sacraments, and especially the Eucharist. All of these relied entirely too much on “the flesh” in their view.
Encountering these Albigensians (known elsewhere as Cathars, Greek for “the pure”) led Dominic Guzman, who was traveling to Rome with his bishop, to establish in 1216 the Order of Preachers to try to win them back to the Catholic faith. There had been an unsuccessful Church-sponsored Crusade against the Albigensians (1208). Catholic preachers whose theology was orthodox but whose lifestyle imitated the rich could never stem the tide of this new movement.
In addition to preaching, Anthony was put in charge of a custody (subunit of a Franciscan province). One of the most famous stories about Anthony occurred in France. A young friar decided to leave the Order, taking with him a handwritten copy of the New Testament, a very valuable book in pre-Gutenberg days. Anthony prayed for at least the book’s return. The man brought it back and rejoined the friars, going on to lead an exemplary life until his death. Thus, Anthony was linked to finding lost objects. More importantly, many people have found anew a faith that previously seemed lifeless and useless.
Am I allowing the Incarnation to influence every aspect of my life?
Do you love Saint Anthony of Padua?
In Anthony’s Own Words
“When a crystal is touched or struck by the rays of the sun, it gives forth brilliant sparks of light. When the man of faith is touched by the light of God’s grace, he too must shine with his good words and deeds, and so bring God’s light to others.”
Did You Know?
Anthony understood that, in preaching the Gospel, words were not enough. He had to show gospel poverty. People wanted more than self-disciplined, even penitent, priests. People wanted the unselfish genuineness of gospel living. And in Anthony they found it. They were moved by who he was more than by what he said.
Legend has it that one day, while preaching to deaf ears, Anthony went to the river and preached to the fishes. That, says the traditional tale, got everyone’s attention.
—Jack Wintz, OFM, Saint Anthony of Padua: His Life, Legends, and Devotions
Prayer
Loving God, in many ways
you prepared Anthony to be
an outstanding preacher of your
grace and mercy.
His actions never undercut what
he had just preached.
Help us constantly to witness
by word and deed to your unfailing love,
constantly inviting others to embrace
your overflowing love and forgiveness.
Amen.
Sunday February 25, 2024
Today I was up @ 5 am. I did my emails before getting into the shower for the 9:30 am Mass. I walked to 36th & Victoria before a #20 bus came. After I came home from Mass I worked on adding more of my contacts into my Gmail Email. I am very excited to go to Toronto in 10 days (March 7). Plans are being made to meet up with my childhood babysitter for lunch on March 12. And my Aunt Kristine is picking us up from the Airport on March 7th where we will be taking her out for her birthday.
Sunday July 7, 1991
Dear Tara Rankin,
I have been too busy to even write. It has been very agonizing from since I wrote until today. I am now in Toronto. So far, yesterday I saw a stupid choir which I give two thumbs down. Then a wonderful supper because Mintit brought in a mouse. There was a thunderstorm last night. I don’t want talk about today. I got to go.
Love,
TKTG
Friday March 2, 2018
widdershins
PRONUNCIATION: (WID-uhr-shinz)
MEANING: adverb: In a counterclockwise, left-handed, or wrong direction.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old High German widar (back, against) + sin (direction). Earliest documented use: 1513. Also see deasil.
USAGE: “There was a boat, ‘The Messenger’. It went widdershins around the Middle Sea.” Jim Webster; Dead Man Riding East; AUK Authors; 2012.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else’s religion practiced on us. -John Irving, novelist (b. 2 Mar 1942)
Name Days For Monday February 26, 2024:
Danisz January 3 (Poland)
Danisz October 1 (Poland)
Danko October 10 (Croatia)
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