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2024-05-27T21:53:04-04:00

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For He had Many Possessions

Last updated on: May 27, 2024 at 9:53 pm By Sherry Antonetti

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We all know the parable of the rich man who comes to Jesus and asks, “What must I do to merit eternal life?” to which ultimately, Jesus tells him to go and sell what he has and give to the poor so as to build up treasure in heaven, and to come and follow him. We don’t know if the man who went away sad because he owned much, recognized the caling to which he was being offered. Maybe he... Read more

Holy Spirit taps

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Teaching others and myself

2024-05-26T23:16:49-04:00

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Graduation Speeches

Last updated on: May 26, 2024 at 11:16 pm By Sherry Antonetti

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“The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here.” –President Abraham Lincoln from the Gettysburg Address. This is the attitude everyone should hold if asked to give a speech at the end of a commencement. When someone says something that is memorable, skads of internet ink gets spilt taking the offending person to the woodshed. I won’t be doing that here, it’s been overdone. What I will do, is counsel aspiring graduation speakers. Given that I have... Read more

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2024-08-07T12:31:33-04:00

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HAPPY SUMMER! 100 Ways to Make this Season Happy and Holy.

Last updated on: August 7, 2024 at 12:31 pm By Sherry Antonetti

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I love summer. It’s my favorite season, all of it. Every year we make a list and yes, a lot of it is tradition and repetitive, berry picking, ice cream trucks, going to the pool, reading a book, going to a drive in, hiking, fireworks, but part of the joy is thinking in advance about all the fun we will have. So I present on this Memorial Day Weekend, my summer list. It’s not all the usual stuff, but there... Read more

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2024-05-15T22:22:43-04:00

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My Friend the Holy Spirit

Last updated on: May 15, 2024 at 10:22 pm By Sherry Antonetti

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Quick! This is a test. Without googling, consulting your 8th grader preparing for Confirmation or opening the Catechism, name the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit. We’re celebrating the feast of Pentecost this Sunday, and aught to know the gifts the third person of the Trinity brings to each of us when we experience our own sacrament of Pentecost. Write down what you remember old school, with a pencil. Tactile memory helps. It’s probably how you learned it the first... Read more

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2024-05-14T07:25:22-04:00

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The Feast of Fatima

Last updated on: May 14, 2024 at 7:25 am By Sherry Antonetti

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For those who are not dialed into the Catholic world, today is the 107th anniversary of the first time the Blessed Mother appeared to the three children in Fatima. The three children were Lúcia dos Santos and her cousins Francisco and Jacinta Marto. Happy feast of the Luminous Mysteries and Our Lady of Fatima. I knew the prayer of Fatima and the Luminous mysteries and had some understanding but never ventured to do a deeper dive into the account of Mary’s visitations with... Read more

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2024-05-02T23:30:03-04:00

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Dear Newly Confirmed People

Last updated on: May 2, 2024 at 11:30 pm By Sherry Antonetti

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Congratulations! You’re confirmed. You’re considered an adult in the Catholic Church now. Feel on fire with the Holy Spirit and certain about the gifts entrusted to you to help build the kingdom of God? Ready to begin fulfilling God’s will in your life and know exactly how that’s to take place? No? For many, the day after Confirmation signals the long walk into a spiritual wasteland. The pews remain empty, and the hearts stop searching or coming to mass until... Read more

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2024-04-24T23:13:22-04:00

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For This Type of Food

Last updated on: April 24, 2024 at 11:13 pm By Sherry Antonetti

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I need to write. Writers do that, every day. I’ve been managing as many words as I do steps as of late. It’s a red letter day when I break six thousand with the walking, and likewise three hundred fifty with the writing. Not sure why putting thoughts down on the page has become harder than exercise. Blaming illness doesn’t work, because this started before I got sick. It can’t be because I’m too busy because I’ve always been too... Read more

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2024-04-14T20:39:57-04:00

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Infinitely Loved, Infinitely Valued

Last updated on: April 14, 2024 at 8:39 pm By Sherry Antonetti

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I had a beautiful piece about how important each of us is to the whole universe, and most especially to the creator of the universe. The piece had pictures and I hit publish and the internet vaporized my work. Now, trying to rewrite the piece, I find the threads are hard to grasp, though I know the fundamental reality I wanted to share. We are created in God’s image, male and female. God imagined us into being, and each... Read more

Family, Parenting and Religion

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2024-04-07T00:24:26-04:00

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Should Do Something

Last updated on: April 7, 2024 at 12:24 am By Sherry Antonetti

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After Easter, the apostles sat around in the upper room knowing they ought to be about doing something, but unsure as to what. The same holds true for me as I recover from what has been a two week long bout of Covid, complete with hospitalization and trying to get to three thousand steps on my fitbit. I have not made it yet. There is so much to life, to being, to doing and yet, the accomplishment of the day... Read more

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Easter

2024-04-03T08:45:35-04:00

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What to do with these 50 Days?

Last updated on: April 3, 2024 at 8:45 am By Sherry Antonetti

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Happy Easter! He is risen! Now what? Easter is fifty days. However, unlike Lent (40 days) and Advent (4 Weeks) and Christmas (12 days), we don’t have a calendar or candles or scheduled rituals other than mass to really mark the reality of these sacred days. There are devotions and traditions but not specific elements that uniquely celebrate this time of joy as we do for Christmas (gifts, feasts, songs), and it makes this time rather parallel to the time... Read more

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