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Ah, with tomorrow’s readings we start back into Ordinary Time.   Our English language makes that sound dry and bland, plain.  The dictionary gives it the synonyms of normal, common, routine… But that isn’t what Ordinary time is about.  The etymology of the word though, ordinalis,  shows us that the wordContinue Reading

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Tomorrow is Christmas Eve.  It’s a time of celebration, a time of great joy, and yet here I am at one A.M. in the morning having very somber thoughts.  I want to share those with you if you will bear with me.  I intended to write something uplifting, something joyfulContinue Reading