Reflection for the Fourth Sunday of Easter A
Acts 2: 14a, 36-41 (RM) or 2: 42-47 (RCL); Psalm 23; 1 Peter 2: 20b-25 (RM) or 19-25 (RCL); John 10: 1-10 Did anyone else get a queasy feeling, a…
Tiny Miracles Part II
In my last post, I wrote about the basic needs for germination of most seeds we gardeners grow. However, as my high school French teacher used to say, “there are…
Reflection for the Third Sunday of Easter A
Acts 2: 14, 22-33 (RM) or 2: 14a, 36-41(RCL); Psalm 16; 1 Peter 1: 17-21 (RM) or 17-23 (RCL); Luke 24: 13-35. “Christ is risen, Alleluia!” “Just as the women…
Daisy Flower Vase Painting
My childhood was full of white daisy flowers.They return in memory in myriad ways. When I was a teenager, I used to herd cows near the streams and grass meadows.…
Tiny Miracles Part I
“For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. To someone who doesn't understand growth, it…
Reflection for the Second Sunday of Easter A
Acts 2: 42-47 (RM) or 2: 14a, 22-32 (RCL); Psalm 118; 1 Peter 1: 3-9; John 20: 19-31. Liturgists are sometimes a very contrary lot. Roman Catholic liturgy scholars and…
The Taste of Things VI: Letting Go
I was shocked and deeply saddened! A week ago today, the Monday of Holy Week, I first read the news that St. Benedict’s Monastery in Snowmass, Colorado was closing. And…
Reflection for Easter Sunday A
Acts 10: 34a, 37-43 (RM) or 34-43 (RCL); Psalm 118; Colossians 3:1-4; John 20: 1-9 (RM in the U.S.), John 20: 1-18 (RM in Canada), or Matthew 28: 1-10 or…
RNDMs Arrival in St. Boniface and Grande Clairière, 1898
We have decided to honor this 125th anniversary of the RNDMs arrival in Canada by posting a monthly history excerpt. These monthly posts will seek to pass on a sense…
Friend Among the Asteroids
My knowledge of asteroids comes mostly from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s beautiful tale of The Little Prince, who lived on a house-sized asteroid known as "B 612", and gave the world…