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Prayer Meme Keeps on Keeping On

Hey folks, We’ve been tagged by friend Bob Rice in a prayer meme, to list our three favorite prayers.  He was tagged by the catholicymblog, and you can trace more of its genealogy there. As Orin is composing this post without Shannon around, I’ll only list two favorite prayers, and let him add one in…

30,001 is our Winner!

As visitor #30,000 failed to identify him-or-herself in the allotted time, we move on to visitor 30,001 to find our $30 in free Oddwalk merchandise winner.  This person was much easier to distinguish based on the sitemeter data – and the is winner is… John Rinaldo Director of Youth and Young Adult Ministry Diocese of…

Seven Years!!

Seven years ago today, my (Shannon) wife, Erin, and I were married at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Aldermanbury in Fulton, Missouri.  It has been a great marriage, highlighted by three awesome children, a great support network of friends and family, and (most importantly) God’s continuous and abundant grace in our lives.. For the wedding, Erin…

Well, one of us would, anyway…

Our friend Paul from the REAP team alerted us to this blog post, which discusses if any earthly being can really know what God’s plan and will (God’s “design” he says) is for his or herself, or for anyone.  The author doubts it very much.  Driving home his point, he says: “And so when we…

Thanks, Keaton!

Friends and neighbors of Orin’s, the Ibendahl family, recently celebrated with the oldest daughter of the family, Keaton, as she received her first communion. Her and her younger brother Chapin saw Oddwalk last year at their school – and Orin’s neighborhood parish in St. Louis – St. Margaret of Scotland. They didn’t have any Oddwalk…