My Spiritual Wanderings and Wonderings

January 2025

  • Second: The Visitation

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    The two women were having a conversation unique in human history. They were talking about experiences with the Archangel Gabriel and…

  • First: The Annunciation

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    The Big Bang theory proposes that our whole universe began from a little hot dot. That magnificent mathematical suggestion was made…

  • Salve Regina / Hail, Holy Queen

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    Salve Regina /Hail, Holy Queen was sung by crusaders in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.  St. Bernard (d. 1153) loved the…

  • God Makes a Lot of Choices

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    I was born on the first anniversary of the 1929 crash. My father was still in college and my mother, until…

  • Always “Doing God’s Will”

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    St. Paul told the Ephesians, Try to find what is pleasing to the Lord (Eph.5:9).       When we are spiritually immature,…

  • Changing hard hearts

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    The wedding was in Cana in Galilee.  Jesus’ mother was there, and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to…