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Tag Archives: prayer
Praying the Rosary 3
Above is the catalogue picture of the Rosary. I chose the light one from www.latinworksco.com. Jeanene Atkinson at www.RealLivePreacher.com has some beautiful pieces, but I’m not ready to commit when I may burn out in a few days. So I … Continue reading
Praying the Rosary 2
If you Google Protestant or Anglican rosary, you’ll find many good historic efforts to make the Rosary acceptable to non-Catholics. I spent just a few hours and came up with this biblical version. The hymns from Revelation 4 and 5 … Continue reading
Praying the Rosary
Some of my friends and colleagues in ministry will be sure I’ve gone off the deep end! Though I doubt many will notice, fewer will care. I said my first Rosary today. Yesterday I ordered from San Antonio a Mexican … Continue reading
Stations of the Cross
Growing up Southern Baptist in El Paso, Texas, in the 1950s and -60s, my father converted from Catholicism, I was imbrued with dislike, suspicion, even hatred of all things Catholic. In seminary taking a class on the classics of Christian … Continue reading
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Tagged prayer, religion, Stations of the Cross
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Prayer time in La La Land
The early Bible study some friends and I do on Thursdays today. 1 We’re trying out Skype. We all know: To err is human but to really f—- things up, it takes a computer. My friends in Africa, my wife … Continue reading
Notes from my journal
Good News! Honest to God, a company that holds a chunk of my retirement savings called this week to inform me that I am not dead. They used my Social Security number by mistake for some claim. The official said … Continue reading
The oil press
Then Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemane.” Matt 26:36 (NRSV) Some words are so redolent, so full of beauty and meaning, that your eye can’t slide past them without pausing. Bethlehem, “house of bread,” is such a word—Bethphage … Continue reading
When the heart is hard and parched
When the heart is hard and parched, come upon me with a shower of mercy. When grace is lost from life, come with a burst of song. When tumultuous work raises its din on all sides, shutting me out from … Continue reading