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Bless the Children and the Innocents

Posted on December 28, 2018 by Spirit Moments

With the last refrain of the angels’ song still hanging in the air, Herod is out to do the baby in whom he saw as threat. The Holy Family become refugees in Egypt, a tragedy oft repeated even in our … Continue reading →

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What Lies Ahead?

Posted on December 27, 2018 by Spirit Moments

We look with joy at the Child in the manger and wonder, “What Child is this who, laid to rest on Mary’s lap is sleeping?” The next time she would have her son in her lap would be at the … Continue reading →

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The Morning After Christmas

Posted on December 26, 2018 by Spirit Moments

A (favorite) nephew who often plays the cynic with a sardonic sense of humor posted this on his wall today, right after Christmas: To all the Non-believers… Happy Normal Tuesday!!! Unwittingly, he expressed the same sentiments as the Christian liturgy. … Continue reading →

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Give Love On Christmas Day

Posted on December 25, 2018 by Spirit Moments

I have always loved this quote from Blaise Pascal “The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing”. (In original French: “Le cœur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît pas.”) There can never be a mathematical formula … Continue reading →

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The Empty Manger

Posted on December 24, 2018 by Spirit Moments

It is Christmas eve and it is all quiet in the house. Anabelle and I are spending Christmas all by ourselves for the first time since 1975 when we spent our first Christmas together as a married couple. Since then, … Continue reading →

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Affirmation

Posted on December 23, 2018 by Spirit Moments

A house with no people living in it is but an empty shell. It will never be a home. People are the soul that make a house a home. And so man is composed of both body and soul. A … Continue reading →

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S.A.D. @ Christmas

Posted on December 22, 2018 by Spirit Moments

Christmas is a joyful season. But how is it that Christmas is often tinged with a touch of sadness for many people? It is a time of love and maybe we miss people we love we could not be with … Continue reading →

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The Mystery of the Incarnation

Posted on December 21, 2018 by Spirit Moments

From today’s Gospel: When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the infant leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth, filled with the Holy Spirit, cried out in a loud voice and said, “Most blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit … Continue reading →

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In Need of Redemption

Posted on December 20, 2018 by Spirit Moments

    In the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph, of the house of David, and the virgin’s name was Mary. … Continue reading →

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What Child Is This?

Posted on December 19, 2018 by Spirit Moments

What has come upon the world for it to have changed so? It used to be that the birth of a child was a wonderful event eagerly awaited with much joyful anticipation. Now, children are seen as a burden, their … Continue reading →

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