“Almost as if on cue, as Benedict’s voyage to Auschwitz drew toward its close early Sunday evening, the wind picked up and a cool rain began to fall. The final ceremony began with the Pope pausing to pray at memorials in the different languages of the 1.5 million killed. But by the time he reached…
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Ascension and Memorial Day
Hey all – Fr. Raul at the Shrine yesterday gave a powerful homily connecting these two sacared and secular feasts. The jist of it was that while Jesus ascended in glory, at some point the apostles were… redirected. “Why are you looking up there?” the angels asked. “He’s gone. He’ll come back someday, but until…
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DVC tee-hee’s
And this line, from an hilarious review at jimmyakin.org:I mean, these two characters are so emotionally inert that from now on the nuclear waste management agency will be using their relationship to insulate spent uranium rods. Read his whole review here.
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3 Years!
Three years ago today, my wife Erin and I were married at St. Mary the Virgin, Aldermanbury in Fulton, MO. What an awesome day. Erin looked beautiful, our friends and family were there, the music was great, it didn’t rain, the congregation only laughed once at my expense, and God showed up to bless our…
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10 puns
1. Two vultures board an airplane; each is carrying two dead raccoons.The stewardess looks at them and says, “I’m sorry, gentlemen,only one carrion allowed per passenger.” 2. Two boll weevils grew up in the deep South. One went to Hollywoodand became a famous actor. The other stayed behind in the cotton fields and never amounted…
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We have (at least) three readers!
Anne Marie at Over the Top also claims to stop by regularly: Here are some sites that I visit daily—…Oddwalk – Shannon and Orin at Oddwalk Ministries make me laugh. A lot. Always something, um, odd at Oddwalk. If only she knew just how true that was…
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Fun at the Hampton Inn
Yesterday, I traveled down to St. Robert (Ft. Leonard Wood), MO to provide entertainment for the Sacred Heart Parish Volunteer Appreciation Dinner. The event was held at the Hampton Inn and catered by a local company. What a great afternoon. When I arrived at around 12:30pm, the honorees were already eating and there was a…