It has been life-giving to me to know that Christianity is never practiced in a vacuum or in just the present tense. When we gather as the Church we bring with us a couple of thousand years of history, and we live into a future that we will never get a total grasp.
I have been [...]
Posts from ‘April, 2009’
The Early Abbots of Cluny (30 April 909)
Catherine of Sienna (29 April 1380)
Bio from Mission St. Clare:
Catherine Benincasa, born in 1347, was the youngest (one of my sources says the 23rd) of twenty-five children of a wealthy dyer of Sienna (or Siena). At the age of six, she had a vision of Christ in glory, surrounded by His saints. From that time on, she spent most of [...]
Love Letters
Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his only Son into the world so that we might live [...]
Eating Fish
From Speaking to the Soul:
Daily Reading for April 26 • The Third Sunday of Easter
There he was. In the midst, though the doors were still firmly bolted. He was familiar, yet different. . . . “Have you anything to eat?” And he “ate before their eyes.” How often had they shared a meal! How important [...]
Mark the Evangelist (April 25th)
The book of Acts mentions a Mark, or John Mark, a kinsman of Barnabas (Col 4:10). The house of his mother Mary was a meeting place for Christians in Jerusalem (Acts 12:12). When Paul and Barnabas, who had been in Antioch, came to Jerusalem, they brought Mark back to Antioch with them (12:25), and he [...]
On Arbor Day
The last Friday in April has been designated as Arbor Day in the United States.
J. Sterling Morton, the originator of Arbor Day says this: “Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes for the future.”
Planting a tree is a sign of an amazing trust in the [...]