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2020-04-20T12:45:26-06:00

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Thomas, a Saint for Social Media, and Another Thought from Divine Mercy Sunday’s Gospel

Last updated on: April 20, 2020 at 12:45 pm By Jack Hartjes

People used to say, “I’m from Missouri, show me” — and you didn’t even have to be from Missouri. We still hear about the skeptical age that we’re supposedly in. When it comes to social media, however, gullible is more like it. Where is St. Thomas when we need him? In John’s Gospel Jesus appears to the disciples Easter Sunday evening. Thomas was not with them and refused to believe their story. A week later Jesus again appeared. Thomas was... Read more

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2023-04-15T05:43:53-06:00

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Father J. P. Grayland on Clerics’ Eucharistic Fast during Pandemic

Last updated on: April 15, 2023 at 5:43 am By Jack Hartjes

A New Zealand parish priest has an interesting take on the Church’s liturgical response to the coronavirus pandemic. Father J. P. Grayland says our clerical bias is showing. What is the place of the baptized lay faithful, Father Grayland wonders, when the Church’s public liturgy can happen without lay people present? Grayland describes himself as “pastor of three parishes in a small rural diocese in a small, secular country.” A priest for 30 years, he has written books, including Catholics.... Read more

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2023-02-13T09:11:10-06:00

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A Jubilee — What if We Had One Today?

Last updated on: February 13, 2023 at 9:11 am By Jack Hartjes

An Imaginative Economic Venture This is a strange economic time, this time of the covid-19 pandemic. Republicans who criticized Obama for spending hundreds of billions to pull the economy out of a recession are now spending trillions to accomplish the same thing. The super rich are coming under pressure to donate some of their billions to researching a corona cure and to charities combating economic devastation. Debt relief on the personal and national levels is a prominent discussion topic among... Read more

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2020-04-06T18:11:22-06:00

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Pandemic Prayer to Mary by Pope Francis

Last updated on: April 6, 2020 at 6:11 pm By Jack Hartjes

I just added a pandemic prayer, Pope Francis’ “Prayer to Mary during Coronavirus Pandemic,” to my daily prayer routine. Here is this beautiful prayer, translated by Catholic News Service: Prayer to Mary during coronavirus pandemic O Mary, you always shine on our path as a sign of salvation and of hope. We entrust ourselves to you, Health of the Sick, who at the cross took part in Jesus’ pain, keeping your faith firm. You, Salvation of the Roman People, know... Read more

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2020-04-02T07:24:51-06:00

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The Person and a Balthasarian Thought about Who I Am

Last updated on: April 2, 2020 at 7:24 am By Jack Hartjes

Who am I? It’s a question addressed in parlor games, odd moments of reflection and the dense prose of theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar. Wading through The von Balthasar Reader, I got to a short section on what it means to be a person. Balthasar names two approaches to an answer. I can compile a list of things that make me unique among all the human species. Or I can get to the heart of the matter and risk encountering... Read more

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2020-03-24T06:23:55-06:00

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Remembering Oscar Romero on his Feast Day

Last updated on: March 24, 2020 at 6:23 am By Jack Hartjes

Today Common Prayer for Ordinary Radicals remembers the not-so-ordinary radical Oscar Romero. It is the day in 1980 that Bishop Romero was assassinated while celebrating Mass. He became a target of the repressive government of El Salvador because of his commitment to social justice and prophetic advocacy for the poor. Workers, not master builders Common Prayer gives us this quote from Romero’s writings. It helps, now and then, to step back and take the long view. The Kingdom is not... Read more

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2020-03-21T16:14:42-06:00

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Corona, Global Warming, Sacrifice, and Hope

Last updated on: March 21, 2020 at 4:14 pm By Jack Hartjes

Before the corona virus epidemic, I was a climate change pessimist. I’m a bit more hopeful now, and that might seem strange. But consider: We’ve gone in a very short time from “It’s just another flu” to social distancing. People are actually working hard at solving this one crisis. Maybe that experience is transferable to a crisis that is similar. Anyway, today I’m thinking about what we can learn from corona. We’re still sleeping through the climate crisis, but corona... Read more

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2020-03-17T14:53:45-06:00

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Rachel Corrie Remembered on the Day she Died Advocating for Palestinians

Last updated on: March 17, 2020 at 2:53 pm By Jack Hartjes

I’m reading the e-mails of Rachel Corrie, whom I’m counting among the “ordinary radicals” of my series of posts on that theme. A short paragraph in the March 16 entry of Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals brought into my world this courageous human being and another way of living humanly. Rachel Corrie was killed on March 16, 2003, by an Israeli bulldozer on the streets of Rafah in Gaza. She was trying to protect the home of a... Read more

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2023-02-13T09:12:58-06:00

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Maximilian of Thavaste, Martyr, First Recorded Conscientious Objector

Last updated on: February 13, 2023 at 9:12 am By Jack Hartjes

Military Wiki, a free military encyclopedia to which anyone can contribute, isn’t all about honor on the battlefield. I was surprised to find there an article about St. Maximilian of Thavaste (today Tebessa in Algeria). He was beheaded by the sword, a weapon he refused to take up. This is a post in the series on Ordinary Radicals. Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals remembers Maximilian in its March 12 entry. The prayer book notes that this is also... Read more

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2020-03-10T07:58:27-06:00

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Globalization, the One and the Many, and Jesus

Last updated on: March 10, 2020 at 7:58 am By Jack Hartjes

In economics globalization seems inevitable if anything is. But at a recent Vatican meeting of finance ministers and experts, Meeting participants agreed it was no longer acceptable science to consider any market philosophy or policy as being “natural,” invisible or inevitable, but that economics is all about people picking and choosing specific rules and frameworks. (Catholic News Service article, reprinted in Chicago Catholic) Pope Francis also spoke at the meeting, sponsored by the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. World leaders... Read more

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