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June 2012

June 13, 2012

Is There Healing for the Dialogue of the Deaf?

Ouch. What a morning. So far I have already: Missed a meeting that I...

June 13, 2012

In St Patrick’s Purgatory

Rocco posted a moving story last night on the opening of the Dublin Eucharistic...

June 12, 2012

Lost & Found: A Prayer to St Anthony

Tomorrow, June 13, is the Feast of St Anthony, native son of Lisbon and adopted...

June 11, 2012

Entertaining Panda Angels, Unaware

The Hollywood Bowl, 44 years ago tonight. Fireflies (Southern California still had them, then) flickering...

June 10, 2012

The Parable of the Order Muppet and the Turquoise Hightops

Max Lindenman shared a great piece yesterday categorizing everyone as either an Order Muppet...

June 09, 2012

The Light of the Body of Christ

For Corpus Christi weekend, a 2012 piece on the history and meaning of the...

June 08, 2012

Praying for a Win–UPDATED

[UPDATE---Just after posting this, word came that I'll Have Another will not race tomorrow due...

June 07, 2012

Breathe, Henny-penny!

One day Henny-penny was picking up corn in the cornyard when---whack!---something hit her upon...

June 06, 2012

Roll Up! Roll Up for the Mystery Tour!

Be careful what you pray for. I thought I was going to have trouble finding...

June 06, 2012

On Fire: St Barbara, MoDowd, Sr Farley and the Grand Inquisitor

The day began with fire. I smelled smoke at 4 a.m. and walked outside...

June 05, 2012

Howdy, Neighbors!

Hi. I'm Joanne. Come on in. Pull up a packing crate, help yourself to the...

June 05, 2012

The Stony Road of Scandal

Stones in the road Leave a mark from whence they came A thousand points of...

June 02, 2012

12 Extra Years: Anna Quindlen, Aging, and the Unreason of the Trinity

Waking up early on this Vigil of the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity, I...

May 2012

May 31, 2012

The Visitation: A Bubble of Glee and Mystery

I'm trying to get past being a sad, angry old Catholic lady today. First there...

May 30, 2012

Hearing Voices

On every thirtieth day of May, being the anniversary of the death of the said...

May 29, 2012

Speaking Truth to Power: The Irony Edition

Today President Obama awarded the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to...

May 26, 2012

Come, Holy Spirit! Get Us Out of This Box!

Tomorrow we celebrate Pentecost, the descent of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles, huddled in...

May 24, 2012

Consider the Source

As we continue the skirmish known variously as The Battle for Religious Freedom and The...

May 23, 2012

The Love That Impels

A personal note about a bright spot in today's onslaught of spin and viciousness regarding...

May 20, 2012

Judged and Found Wanting

While they were looking intently at the sky as he was going, suddenly two men...

May 19, 2012

Freezing the Kool Aid

Bad enough I'm always torn between explaining to my artist friends that being a faithful...

May 17, 2012

Ascension Thursday: Never on Sunday!

It's Ascension Thursday. Or at least it is if you live in the US ecclesiastical...

May 15, 2012

Angels in the Fields

Out here in the fields I fight for my meals I get my back into...

May 13, 2012

Of Wanderers and Anchorites: A Mother’s Day Reflection

I come from a line of mothers who wander. One of my maternal great-grandmothers, otherwise...

May 09, 2012

The Heartburn of Sex

When Max Lindenman sent me a link to this story last night, I got heartburn....

May 08, 2012

Where the Wild Things Are Reunited

Maurice Sendak, who died today, was always someone I respected more than loved. I was...

May 08, 2012

Holy Communion!

I attended my first post-reversion First Communion last Saturday. My friends' daughter Sylvia wrote and...

May 07, 2012

Over the Chalice of the World

There are much better photos of Saturday nights's Supermoon, but this is how I saw...

May 03, 2012

The Doorway into Thanks: Reflections on the National Day of Prayer

Today is the National Day of Prayer in the United States--or, as President Obama put...

May 02, 2012

Always a Dryad, Never the May Queen

Daily, daily sing to Mary Sing, my soul, her praises due All her feasts, her...