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AMERICAN MYSTIC- CALIFORNIA SAINT?
As we near the end of the liturgical year, in this month of saints, we consider 3 women who may one day have a place in the rank of American Catholic saints.During the fall general assembly in...
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RE-DOING A PET PEEVE!
Anni MorrisWhatever happened to "women's lib"? In the beginning when it all started, I would stare at the speaker and say, "I don't see any guys". But soon found that all it does is confuse the...
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CIVIL RIGHTS NUN
As we celebrate Thanksgiving tomorrow, we are grateful for all who have gone before us, giving example of a life lived following the Lord and in service of others. We close this month dedicated to...
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THE EXCUSE SYSTEM?
Anni MorrisWhen I saw the above painting, I thought that as funny as it seems, it may be easier to ride on a whale than our too often non-...
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CHRISTMAS STAMP- A TRADITION IN USA
Soon people all over the world will be sending out Christmas cards, in spite of so many now sending via the internet. I thought this Advent it would be interesting to find religious stamps from other...
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AUSTRALIAN CHRISTMAS
When looking for Christmas foreign stamps, I came across this artist, who happened to die on Christmas day 2019 at the age of 99. LEOPOLDINE POLDI MIMOVICH was born in 1920 and grew up in the...
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CHRISTMAS STAMPS- AROUND THE WORLD
Christmas stamps, as we know them are not that old. It is a matter of debate as to which was the first Christmas stamp. The Canadian map stamp of 1898...
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NEW BIRDS IN A VANISHING WORLD
One of the best things about the month of December, is the annual Christmas Bird Count ( for us it will be on the 17th this year). About four years ago I was in Arizona for meetings, and my friend...
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OUR LADY OF SEATTLE ON SHAW ISLAND
For years I have admired the artwork of DANIEL MATSUI, and recently a friend in Seattlegave us a beautiful giclee print of this drawing by this artist, which was commissioned for her parish church,...
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MORE STAMPS- AROUND THE WORLD
In searching for more postal stamps for Christmas, I am amazed at the variety of design and also the countries producing religious themes, such as Sri Lanka and Micronesia. The choice of designs is...
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THE GREAT "Os"
A reminder that December 17, we start the “O” ANTIPHONS at Vespers, prayers that are recited or chanted in an ancient tradition leading up to Christmas. Sister...
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EXPECTATION
Today is the feast of "OUR LADY of EXPECTATION", which is also known as “OUR LADY of the O” because the Church a has just begun to sing the "O” Antiphons at Vespers. They remind us of the universal...
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CHRISTMAS IN THE UKRAINE
Since the Ukrainian invasion, I have had on my desk a photo of the Benedictine nuns, who once lived in Zhytomyr, but evacuated to Liv, with a smaller and newer Benedictine community. The photo was...
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THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER - 5 DAYS BEFORE CHRISTMAS
“Someone who goes through this wilderness among mankind again and again as the Seeker, and as the Caller, You can sense that that this is more than the call of man, or a power, or a greatness, or a...
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HOLY FAMILY
On December 17, 2022, Pope Francis recognized the martyrdom of a Polish family killed by the German Nazi occupiers in 1944 for sheltering Jews in an effort to save them from the Holocaust. The...
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PEOPLE IN DANGER- 4 DAYS BEFORE THE BIRTH OF CHRIST
Dutch artist Gerda Smelik (b. 1964) says about this mixed media piece:Advent, a period of reflection and expectation, is portrayed by a globe with a fetus inside. The dark colors stand for the...
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FIRST LIGHT - 3 DAYS BEFORE THE BIRTH
Winter in Ukraine- Rado Javor“Advent is the time of promise; it is not yet the time of fulfillment. We are still in the midst of everything and in the logical inexorability and relentlessness of...
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LIFE'S ABUNDANCE- 2 DAYS BEFORE JESUS' BIRTH
The shaking, the awakening: with these, life merely begins to become capable of Advent. It is precisely in the severity of this awakening, in the helplessness of coming to consciousness, in the...
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PEACE TO THE WORLD - THE EVE
“Three Angels” (1983) by Vitaliy Lytvyn (Ukrainian artist) Toronto, Canada“Peace means above all the absence of...
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CHRISTMAS
Taras Lozynskyy (Ukrainian- on glass)“God’s voice resounds in stillness, attentiveness, and silence. It is “only in peace that we can enter profoundly into ourselves and recognize the authentic...
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