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10 the Lord said to Moses: Go to the people and have them sanctify themselves today and tomorrow. Have them wash their garments 11 and be ready for the third day; for on the third day the Lord will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all theContinue Reading

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I looked into the kitchen this morning, after spending the day in bed in pain.  I lifted too much yesterday and was just unable to get up this A.M.  The dishes weren’t done.  I for some reason expected to magically get up at noon and find them washed.  There theyContinue Reading

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Today’s readings bring to mind something I have been meditating on a lot lately.  The concept of Holiness.  We all have so many varied definitions of Holiness, from being set apart, to being like God, to even the notion that being Holy means being free from sin.  Recently though someone broughtContinue Reading

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There is this notion going around (and has been for many hundreds of years).  The church has been combating it from a very early time.  The Gnostics have long held (since the 1st and 2nd centuries) that all of creation was evil.  That notion is that the material world, thatContinue Reading

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It’s been an interesting few days.  We’ve seen the supreme court decide for the entire nation an issue of morality.  Forcing states (regardless of voters opinion in those states) to accept something they may or may not approve of.  For many that’s a hard thing to swallow.  Tempers are high.Continue Reading

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As I was walking back from the bus stop this morning, instead of praying the office of readings I decided I would do the Rosary.  This mornings mysteries were the Sorrowful Mysteries.  I began to walk along watching the squirrels running around preparing for winter, watching the parents running toContinue Reading

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 To be a sacramental person is so far beyond anything that I think we can convey in words.   It is to be Christ himself present to the world, as his hands, eyes, feet and mouth. As a convert, the very nature of our faith is so much beyond whatContinue Reading