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Lenten practices: It’s not too late to start

Friday, 23 March 2012 00:00

It is well established and understood that Lent is a time of prayer, penance, fasting, abstinence and almsgiving with the goal of spiritual transformation.   Generally, the focus has been on denial, “giving up something”, often some sort of food or drink.  

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Sublimation and the sublime

Friday, 16 March 2012 00:00

Celebration is a paradoxical thing, created by a dynamic interplay between anticipation and fulfillment, longing and inconsummation, the ordinary and the special, work and play.

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Consecrated by circumstance and need

Friday, 09 March 2012 00:00

We can lose our freedom for different reasons and, sometimes, for the best of reasons.

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At St. Mark’s: ‘The best form of teaching’

Friday, 09 March 2012 00:00

Jumping out of bed with no complaints at 5:15 a.m. is usually a drudge, but there are things that can motivate such an action. A few weeks ago that motivation was to get from Camarillo to St. Mark Church in Venice for the annual Grandparent’s Mass at 8 a.m.

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Porous and buffered personalities

Friday, 02 March 2012 00:00

A friend of mine tells this story: As a young boy in the 1950s he was struck down with pneumonia. His family lived in a small town that had neither a hospital nor a doctor. His father had a job which had taken him away from the family for that week. His mother was home alone with no phone and no car.

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Papal intentions for May: That administrators of justice may act always with integrity and right conscience; That seminaries, especially those of mission churches, may form pastors after the Heart of Christ, fully dedicated to proclaiming the Gospel.