2021
Printed issues of Of Seeds and Flowers for this year.
June and July are one combined issue on file.
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January 2021America needs truth, forgiveness, reconciliation, and love. The baker Fouke cannot forgive until he receives the miracle of magic eyes. Write hurts in sand and kindness on stone. Stay in the Church unless you have lost faith in Jesus.
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February 2021Washington’s 1789 thanksgiving proclamation — could it be written today? Windows of gold were on the boy’s own cabin all along. Falling upward: Jesus went down to go up. Merton: I have no idea where I am going; I will trust you always.
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March 2021Eleven ways to practice resurrection: refuse the negative thought, choose the True Self, serve rather than be served. Do not indulge the false self concocted by the mind and by society. Always seek to change yourself before trying to change others.
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April 2021André’s fisherman is already wealthy: he has time with his wife and the sea. The businessman promises that life after an empire of boats. Contentment is not laziness; being comes before more boats.
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May 2021Panis Angelicus, month of First Communions. Justin Martyr in 155 already describes our Sunday Eucharist. The Buenos Aires host becomes living heart muscle. “If you ever must choose between Mass and seeing me,” Mary said, “choose the Mass.”
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June and July 2021Helen Roseveare’s hot-water-bottle prayer: a child asks, and the parcel packed five months earlier arrives that afternoon. John Paul II: direct abortion always constitutes a grave moral disorder. Mother Teresa’s secret was holding Mary’s hand.
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August 2021Issue text not here yet.
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September 2021The “nones” say they are spiritual but not religious. Being just spiritual still takes real work. One goes to church not to find God but to worship Him. Why not be both religious and spiritual?
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October 2021Two wolves: the one you feed wins. Harvard elects an atheist as chief chaplain. Over a hundred former Episcopal priests, with wives and children, now serve as Catholic priests. Is celibacy really more important than the Eucharist?
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November 2021Cindy, in the rain, gives the umbrella without a moment’s hesitation — bis dat qui cito dat. Each night Bill prays the Litany of Humility. A Greek folktale: Truth in rags still loves the truth.
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December 2021Issue text not here yet.
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