Note: On Tuesdays and some Sundays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there. They were judgmental and fearful, the Pharisees and Herod. The last thing they wanted was for Jesus’s message of the kingdom of God being at hand to take… Continue reading Fear-Filled Leaven
Month: February 2019
Wednesday’s Woman: Blessed Humbeline
The Basics: Born about 1092 in France; died about 1136 in France; beatified 1703 by Clement XI; feast day, February 12. Woman religious. The Story: Imagine you are wealthy, in part due to marriage, but in part because you are the sole member of your immediate family still in the secular world. Imagine your mother has… Continue reading Wednesday’s Woman: Blessed Humbeline
Clinging to Human Tradition
Note: On Tuesdays and some Sundays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there. He responded, “Well did Isaiah prophesy about you hypocrites, as it is written: This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me; In… Continue reading Clinging to Human Tradition
Wednesday’s Woman: St. Bilhildis
The Basics: Born in the 7th century in Germany; died 734 in Germany; canonized precongregation; feast day, November 27. Wife, woman religious. The Story: Bilhildis’s parents planned to have her baptized. They really did. They were Christians living in an area that still had many pagans and pagan customers, so when she was three or so,… Continue reading Wednesday’s Woman: St. Bilhildis