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SoulScribe on October 2nd, 2009

Time is a transient thing.  It slips by quickly unnoticed until days, weeks, months have melted away. Time in a crisis is even more fleeting. I find myself starting again in more ways than one.  But isn’t that what life and faith are all about?  A journey of stops and starts, speed bumps and long […]

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SoulScribe on June 2nd, 2009

Dream Over That was the headline for a story on Susan Boyle, the contestant who caught the attention of the world in Britain’s TV talent show – Britain’s Got Talent.  She wasn’t your average – wait, she was your average-looking singer.  She wasn’t this polished, made-up and groomed mega-star like Beyoncé – or whatever she’s […]

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SoulScribe on May 29th, 2009

No one is really happy merely because he has what he wants, but only if he wants things he ought to want. St. Augustine

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SoulScribe on May 18th, 2009

  If you judge people, you have no time to love them.   Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta    

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SoulScribe on May 6th, 2009

Man is what he believes.  Anton Chekhov 

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SoulScribe on April 16th, 2009

And for us this is the end of all the stories.  All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story, which no one on Earth has read…in which every chapter is better than the one before. […]

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SoulScribe on April 13th, 2009

Broken things are precious. We eat broken bread because we share in the death of our Lord and his broken life. Broken flowers give perfume. Broken incense is used in adoration. A broken ship saved Paul and many other passengers on the way to Rome. Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into […]

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SoulScribe on April 9th, 2009

God calls us to lead lives of holiness.  Jesus gave the most perfect example with his own life.  But he gave us other examples of holiness in his own mother, the Virgin Mary, and the saints. Saints are people to whom we can relate, essentially role models for the faithful.  Saints do not forget those […]

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SoulScribe on April 6th, 2009

We know that every effort to better society, especially where injustice and sin are so ingrained, is an effort that God blesses, that God wants, that God demands of us. Archbishop Oscar Romero March 24, 1980 Last homily before he was martyred for the people of El Salvador

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SoulScribe on March 25th, 2009

“Hope” is the thing with feathers —
 That perches in the soul — 
And sings the tune without the words —
 And never stops — at all — Emily Dickinson

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