January 2020

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April 2020

Happy Easter: we are Easter people and alleluia is our song. A dying woman in China knew the Trinity because St. Joseph sent for the missionaries. Corona revealed who is raising the children. To forgive is to set the prisoner free and discover the prisoner was you.

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May 2020

Pentecost: Catholics have been sacramentalized, not evangelized. Holiness is for the laity, not only priests and nuns. The Christian life needs the Holy Spirit.

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June 2020

The Corona correction: put the big rocks in first or they will never go in. First rock: God. Then spouse. Then children. Love is a four-letter word spelled TIME.

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July 2020

Four little devils: the cleverest keeps us too busy for God. Cardinal Hume learned God is a lover, not a policeman. Don’t forget your shoes when you pray for rain. MLK did not throw the rock back; protest is easy, transformation is hard.

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September 2020

A lighthouse was built to save those at sea. Soon the rescuers kept banker’s hours, then watched from shore, then forgot why they had come. Do not let the mission become a club.

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October 2020

Silence is God’s first language. When prayer is abandoned, God vanishes in that person. Forgive by adopting the heart of Jesus. Douthat: America’s problem is bad religion, a choose-your-own Jesus.

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November 2020

The Golden Rule, lived, at Thanksgiving. Francis de Sales: grow where you are planted; daily life or nothing. The Church is a messy mother and still survives. The devil’s favorite tool is discouragement.

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December 2020

Christmas begins with a baby’s cry; each of us is an innkeeper who decides if there is room. God still sells only seeds. The butterfly must struggle out of the cocoon or it cannot fly. Jesus was an unplanned pregnancy; Mary an unwed mother.

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