My Spiritual Wanderings and Wonderings

January 2025

  • Passionate Indifference

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    When St. Ignatius tells us (in the Principle and Foundation) to live “indifferent to all created things.” it might sound like…

  • Where Are My Flowers

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    WHERE ARE MY FLOWERS It might have been May when the Day Lilies were flourishing up in Audubon Park.  I might…

  • I Brought You Here

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    St. Ignatius Hall in Black Jack (well, across the street from Florissant) Missouri, holds about sixty elderly or infirm Jesuits and…

  • Wake Up Dead

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    When I was growing up before the Second Vatican Council, one of the prayers I heard regularly in church was the prayer…

  • From Sunday Mass to Daily Prayer

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    We hear a lot about how Sunday Mass attendance was strong before The Second Vatican Council. Now it’s easy to be…

  • Three: The Nativity

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    Herod the Great had died some years before Joseph took Mary into his home. There had been uprisings back then, and…