From Safari…. How was your first week of Ordinary Time? What is Ordinary Time? First thoughts might include such words as --- typical, routine, or even mundane. In reality our days are filled with moments of God’s grace penetrating ourlives. The ordinary is the listing of ordinal, or sequential, numbers. Rather than making a statement about degrees of importance, the term Ordinary Time refers to the order of Sundays in the church year that do not fall into the major liturgica

Pentecost – Te Birthday of the Church As we celebrate the beginning of the mission of the Church in the world with the Gift of the. Holy Spirit, I invite you to prayerfully reflect on one of my favorite prayers in the whole treasury of the Church, prayer, the Sequencefor Pentecost. A translation of the original Latin Veni Creator Spiritus, written by the French Benedictine monk Rabanus Maurus, the Church has prayed these words for almost twelve centuries through all manner of

From Safari…. Some of you will recall that the feast of the Ascension came 40 days after Easter. Usually after the proclamation of the Gospel, the Paschal Candle was extinguished. This set the stage for the feast of Pentecost. The Gospel writers and the writer of the Acts of the Apostles (Many scholars consider the Acts of the Apostles to part II of the Gospel of Luke. The Gospel reflects on the life of Jesus, the Acts of the Apostles shows the Holy Spirit working in the live

Blessings to all mothers and grandmothers, to new moms and those expecting a child, to single mothers and foster mothers and those who are “second mothers” in caring for children outside their own family circle. There is a program titled “Called and Gifted” which helps people recognize their gifts from God and inspires them to put them to use for the Gospel. Mothers, of every age and circumstance, are called to this vocation of love by God,and gifted in countless ways to live

From Safari …. Some twenty years ago in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, a gunman shot ten girls in an Amish School, six of the girls died, and then killed himself. Midst their own grief, many of the families comforted the families of the man who shot their daughters. They visited the man’s parents as well as his wife and children. They stood with the family at his burial, outnumbering the non-Amish there. Some criticized the quick and complete forgiveness with which the Amish res