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July 3, 2017 Feast of Saint Thomas, Apostle Lectionary: 593 EPH 2:19-22 PS 117:1BC, 2 JN 20:24-29 Poor Thomas.  Labeled for centuries now as the doubter.  The one who questioned if the story were true.  It’s funny how we do that to each other.  We choose one thing about someoneContinue Reading

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The Saint for Today was Saint Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury.  Father Don Ahles recommended that we watch the movie Becket(1964) if we had never seen it.  That seemed like something fun to do, so I spent a few hours this afternoon downstairs laying in a comfortable warm bedContinue Reading

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A documentary I just watched talked about the beatitudes. How that each one called us to a further detachment from the world, and a radical attachment to God. Then it spoke about how happiness, true happiness, was doing God’s will… All of that I believe and have thought of onContinue Reading