Note: On Tuesdays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there. Promises, promises. St. Paul made promises, promises to visit people and churches. But he was a busy man. Sometimes his casual promises couldn’t be fulfilled. Maybe he even knew as he… Continue reading Promises, Promises
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Of Jealous, Envy… and Love
Note: On Tuesdays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there. Who among us hasn’t been there? In today’s first reading, Tobit, the devout and once-wealthy Israelite, has been literally blind for four years. Everyone, including Tobit himself, felt bad for the… Continue reading Of Jealous, Envy… and Love
Joyful, Joyful, We Adore You
Note: On Tuesdays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there. For a long time, I was in an online writing group. We each had a nickname, and the one they selected for me was Joy. In fact, Melanie Joy is the… Continue reading Joyful, Joyful, We Adore You
It’s the Quality, Not the Quantity
Note: On Tuesdays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there. In today’s Gospel reading from John 17, Jesus’ prayer before his Passion begins isn’t a litany of the number of followers he amassed or the number of people he fed, healed,… Continue reading It’s the Quality, Not the Quantity