My Spiritual Wanderings and Wonderings

Personal

  • Choose Your Classroom

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    When I was teaching at the old Jesuit High School in what is now downtown Dallas, my mother was teaching kindergarten…

  • No Mass on Sundays

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    LorSomething or maybe my Guardian Angel nudged me as I knelt down to say my night prayers.  We used to make…

  • Snow Angels and Purgatory

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    Evaristo Mapruanga SJ, a Jesuit brother from Zimbabwe, had never seen snow.  So when he came in 1989 to my program…

  • 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…