Searching for a Balance

  May our knowledge of you become ever clearer That we may know the breadth of your blessings the length of your promises the height of your...

 "We temporarily added another member to the household this week when Hollyberry Red loped onto the terrace with a very wee rabbit. No ...

 Well, it's Pentecost, the end of the Easter season.  And I got out the red tablecloth for dinner. Tell of how th' ascended Jesus Ar...

 I fully intended to make a blogpost today, but it was so hot, over ninety. I kept working through it all, and finally put on a bit of air c...

 "I used to be a stupendous mouse-killer. Our Connecticut mice eat anything at all from my best wooden stirring spoon to a down cushion...

 Well, yesterday was forty days after the resurrection of Jesus, and now we are praying for the nine days before Pentecost. "The Spirit...

 "Carved into the high cross at Ahenny, County Tipperary, is a figure of a solitary monk sitting under a palm tree. Was he the founder ...

 "We must be slaves of either time or health; we cannot dispose of either as we will! If we thought of acting only when all the conditi...

May twenty second, and this is as warm as it got. We've been living in a dream world with summer-like temperatures, to the point where i...

 "In the mosaic that is the Church, each one of us is a living tile. While we know that each of us has value only as part of the whole,...

  We're going to read A Good Man is Hard to Find, by Flannery, on the Literary Life podcast, and Angelina is explaining where her storie...

 As soon as the new pope was elected and he chose the name Leo XIV, I looked up Pope Leo XIII. I ordered a biography of him and two things h...

 A Happy Mother's Day to all mothers in the U.S. I hope cat mothers are included in this holiday. Be Joyful, Mary Be joyful, Mary, heav...

 Oh, the rain we've been having. And yesterday it was so cool and damp I actually shut all the windows and turned the heat back up. But ...

 It's pouring out now, and is supposed to continue tomorrow. But it was beautiful out earlier and I took advantage of it - I pulled up w...

 I saw two rainbows today, and almost by chance. We went to the supermarket as it was getting dark, with a thunderstorm looming. It didn...

  May is Mary's month, and I Muse at that and wonder why: Her feasts follow reason, Dated due to season— Candlemas, Lady Day; But the La...

 "St. John's narrative of the Resurrection opens on the morning of the first day of the week. It is still dark - just the way it wa...

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Good Friday  has some competition this year in the U.S. - it is two hundred and fifty years since Paul Revere took his famous ride up north ...

 My throat was scratchy on Wednesday, and then I felt warm yesterday, with everything that comes along with that. So I stayed home for the H...

 My brother mowed the lawn yesterday. I stepped outside in the morning to empty some trash, in time to hear a mockingbird giving his spring ...

 "We are in the great week now....The double melody of suffering and triumph which touched us so strongly yesterday is once more audibl...

I was thinking today of how quickly things turned against Jesus. On Palm Sunday, we commemorate his seemingly triumphal entry into Jerusalem...