Oddwalk will more than likely be taking the Triduum off from blogging – please celebrate these days solemnly and joyfully. Seek a personal encounter with Christ and his redemptive paschal mystery. Reach out for his suffering, death, and resurrection. Use all your senses to realize it. Make it reality in your mind, heart, and soul,…
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Spy Wednesday
We – or Orin at least – have never heard the Wednesday of Holy Week called “Spy Wednesday” before, but apparantly it is by more than just a few. Whaddayaknow. The name refers to the Gospel of the day, the visit Judas pays to the Chief Priests.
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Okay, we will!
So, Orin and Erin went to St. Henry’s in Belleville, IL for their lenten fish-fry yesterday. Oddwalk played a concert there earlier this year, and Erin was planning the evening as a social night for Belleville Young Adult Ministry. Anyway, here’s a picture of the menu-board: Why? Well, what caught Orin’s eye was the catch-phrase…
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Usually in humor is a hint of truth
I might preface this joke two ways: 1) Aquinas Institute is a Domincan school, and 2) It’s possibly only Orin finds this funny. Saints Dominic, Francis and Ignatius of Loyola are transported back in time and place to the Birth of Our Lord. St. Dominic, seeing the Incarnation of the Word, is sent into ecstasy.…
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Once, Always
There are some, ahem, inaccuracies in the joke, but it’s still funny! John Smith was the only Protestant to move into a large Catholic neighborhood. On the first Friday of Lent, John was outside grilling a big juicy steak on his grill. Meanwhile, all of his neighbors were eating cold tuna fish for supper. This…
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A funny exchange
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Even B16 weighs in
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An interesting “Lenten Penance” – Becoming a bag lady
Oddwalk’s friend – and Orin’s cow-orker at the Shine – Erin Simmons (that’s right another Erin, just for confusion’s sake) Anyway, she has taken up an interesting “Lenten Penance” read her words: For the 40 days of preparation before Holy Week, I am giving up packaged goods. And by “giving up,” I mean the following.…