64 - A man walked into a gift shop that sold religious items. Near the cash register he saw a displa... More ›› 65 - A few years ago, when the Catholic church reform began to be much in the news, Mrs. Moskowitz s... More ›› 66 - A little girl spoke to her teacher...
But also,wake upto the dawn of salvation.Wake upto the voice that cries in the wilderness, “Prepare the way of the Lord who is coming.” Wake up to God’s gift of new possibility. In the old Latin mass, on 4 of the 5 Sundays before Christmas, the Collect began with the same word...
The rabbi explains that he'd like to have a retirement gift made out of the foreskins and the leatherworker agrees and tells the rabbi to come back in a couple weeks. A couple weeks later the rabbi comes back and the leatherworker hands him a wallet. "All those foreskins and you ...
“… but when almost prepared for appetites whetted by long anticipation to an exquisite keenness, a caterer of the royal household unhappily came near, and, attracted to the spot by the savory fumes of the baking pile, deliberately took a seat till the animal was cooked, and then bore off...
Time is a gift, and I am truly grateful for my years so far—the dreams as well as the realities.Je ne regrette rien.As for the road ahead (even if it’s all downhill), I wish not to be the man on the donkey, idly dozing along the pilgrim way. Like the figure gazing at the...
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Whatever I have made my own through my own efforts becomes through my gift the property of someone else; and I can't take it back from him without committing an injustice. Now we need to take only one more step, and the validity of contracts will be placed on a sure footing. The ...
God who has come, God who does come, God who is yet to come: Make us an Advent people, ready and alert to welcome and receive You in the stranger’s face, the loving act, the moment of grace, the presence of healing, the birth of possibility, the gift of wonder. Let every heart...
“The sun is high, at the zenith. Clear soft sound of a temple bell far down in the valley. Voices of children near the cottages above me on the mountainside. The sun is warm. Everything falls into place. Nothing is to be decided … There is nothing to be judged.”[vi] ...