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2021-03-17T16:51:21-05:00

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What St. Joseph Can Teach Us About Essential Workers

Last updated on: March 17, 2021 at 4:51 pm By guest writer

This post is part of a year-long series for the Year of St. Joseph. Read the post for January here and the post for February here. This March, we mark the one-year anniversary of the World Health Organization’s declaration that the SARs-CoV-2 virus had spread into an official pandemic. In the Catholic Church we also recognize this March as the month of St. Joseph, who is known as the Patron Saint of Workers. The 19th has been his feast day... Read more

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2021-03-15T07:33:29-05:00

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Things Keeping Us Going for March 15th

Last updated on: March 15, 2021 at 7:33 am By Kristen Allen

I know that today is the Ides of March, and that St. Patrick’s Day and St. Joseph’s Day are both coming up this week, but there is another holiday, just passed, that is my subject for TKUG today: Pi Day. My children are all geeks. [Proud Mama grin] Back when my oldest (who is turning 30 this year) was in middle school, her math teacher brought a pie to school on March 14 because 3.14 = pi and all. That... Read more

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2021-03-11T17:45:38-05:00

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Dark Devotional: Darkness and Light

Last updated on: March 11, 2021 at 5:45 pm By guest writer

Whoever lives the truth comes to the light, so that his works may be clearly seen as done in God (John 3:21). One of the more annoying aspects to the scriptural readings proclaimed at Mass is that the readings are rarely “complete.” With the exception of the passion narratives during Holy Week, most of the Gospel readings throughout the liturgical year have been pared down, essential details that are important to understanding the stories whittled away, perhaps in... Read more

2021-03-11T11:34:07-05:00

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Keep Walking, Keep Letting Go

Last updated on: March 11, 2021 at 11:34 am By guest writer

This is the fourth week of our Lenten Series: Sick Pilgrim’s Progress. You can read week 1 here, week 2 here, and week 3 here. In 1992 I heard about the Camino de Santiago, in my case the Camino Francés for the first time. At that moment it whipped itself around me, grabbing me tightly for years and years. I dreamed of going, but I was a mess spiritually, emotionally, and financially. It became part of the “when I am thinner-happier-free-from-debt-more-fit-have-time” series of... Read more

2021-03-08T18:51:21-05:00

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Things Keeping Us Going: Reading & Writing Edition

Last updated on: March 8, 2021 at 6:51 pm By Kristen Allen

March is National Reading Month, so I figured we should have a totally lit (see what I just did there?) TKUG. I have been working through a pretty heavy reading list this winter, so this month I am enjoying children’s literature and my beloved Irish poets. My writing of late has consisted entirely of these weekly blog posts. Perhaps my fellow Sickies will inspire me. This is what is keeping some of the writers of Sick Pilgrim going this week:... Read more

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2021-03-04T14:59:51-05:00

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Dark Devotional: Subversive Worship, In Spirit and in Truth

Last updated on: March 4, 2021 at 2:59 pm By guest writer

I can’t believe we’re back here already. Last year on this Third Sunday of Lent, the story of the woman at the well spoke to me differently than ever before. Usually I notice the woman, first and foremost. I grapple with the tension between the almost immediate intimacy she achieves with Christ on the one hand, and the discomfort I feel at the way her story is so often used. That is, while there is such beauty, tenderness and vulnerability... Read more

2021-03-08T18:57:48-05:00

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Taking the Long Way Home

Last updated on: March 8, 2021 at 6:57 pm By Kristen Allen

This is the third week of our Lenten Series: Sick Pilgrim’s Progress. You can read week 1 here and last week (week 2) here. Like Mary, I, too, am at an impasse with my faith. Like my friend, I find “it is painful, and personal, and ongoing.” Unlike Mary, I have not feared what other faiths offer. I have long wandered around, eagerly engaging with other denominations and faiths through my work in education and social services, and my... Read more

2021-03-01T13:08:07-05:00

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TKUG for March 1

Last updated on: March 1, 2021 at 1:08 pm By Kristen Allen

Life is hard, even when there isn’t a pandemic looming. In my inner circle there is radiation treatment starting for two different beloveds, a brother whose cancer is finally beyond treatment, a brother who is in treatment of another sort instead of jail, a son who is recovering from surgery, a daughter with severe morning sickness, a husband who continues to struggle with a brain injury, two elderly mothers who are in cognitive decline… That is aside from the ordinary... Read more

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2021-02-25T16:35:43-05:00

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Dark Devotional: Letters from an Old Friend

Last updated on: February 25, 2021 at 4:35 pm By guest writer

This conversation comes up a lot for me in adulthood, whether in RCIA groups, young adult ministry, small groups—any of those situations where a bunch of us are gathered in some kind of prayerful intimacy, looking for God’s presence in our lives in one of those oh-so-Jesuit ways. One of us will say something like, “Yeah, when I was growing up, I had such a fearful understanding of God. Or maybe I thought Jesus was the “nice” one, and God... Read more

2021-02-24T11:01:16-05:00

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Pilgrimage of the Soul

Last updated on: February 24, 2021 at 11:01 am By Marybeth Bishop

This is part of a Lenten series on pilgrimage. Find the first part here. When Kristen suggested that we all go on pilgrimage this Lent, my heart sank a bit. I’ve always wanted to go on a “real” pilgrimage—looking at you, Santiago de Compostela—but right now, even a pretend or virtual pilgrimage is difficult. While I love the cold, the two ice storms we’ve had in the last few weeks have made even a neighborhood walk treacherous. When the weather... Read more

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