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Maundy Thursday

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Nos autem gloriari oportet in cruce Domini nostri Iesu Christi,in quo est salus, vita et resurrectio nostra per quem salvati et liberati sumus. Father,by the power of the Holy SpiritYou anointed Your own Son Messiah and Lord of creation;You have given us a share in His consecrationto priestly service in Your Church.Help us to be […]

Under Construction

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The blog that is. If you’ve visited in the past 48 hours you might have noticed some weird goings on.  Sidebars changing colors, pictures disappearing and reappearing, text getting larger and smaller. I have no idea what I’m doing. Fortunately I have a friend who is waaaay smarter than I am and very generous in […]

We’re back

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We arrived back in New York late on Sunday. It was an endless 16 hour drive punctuated by car sickness and coughing. We picked up a hideous bug in Savannah and we left there in the wee hours Sunday (the unaffected among us went to Mass Saturday night) with fevers, coughing, sneezing and general misery. […]

Poetry Friday

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Since we are celebrating the feast of St. Patrick’s Day here in Savannah I thought a merry Irish poem appropriate. The Fiddler of DooneyBy William Butler Yeats WHEN I play on my fiddle in Dooney, Folk dance like a wave of the sea; My cousin is priest in Kilvarnet, My brother in Moharabuiee. I passed […]