This week we are republishing some of the most popular posts from dot Magis. Today’s jolt arrived mid-afternoon when I hauled out a (paper!) calendar to jot something down. The square for September 1st remained unadorned by red heart and sparkling star stickers. Nowhere on my calendar had I written “anniversary!!!” in big purple letters [...]
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With two — count ‘em — church annulment documents carefully stashed in a fireproof file box, I vowed I’d never get remarried. The annulment process revealed all that had been predictably wrong and I, for one, was not going to risk another messy marriage. We plan; God laughs. A decade elapsed between my first and [...]
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Does anyone not know I’m getting married in four weeks? I’m getting married in four weeks and have been writing about it here. This isn’t my first or even my second marriage, but I know it will be my last one. This time God is at the center; something I knew early on in my [...]
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No kid stuff to plaster all over my refrigerator with fruit magnets, just stuff that has captured my attention. Mostly images, snippets of scripture, prayers. Some stuff, like the laminated Sacred Heart of Jesus card from a funeral back in 1996 has been posted on at least three different refrigerators since then. The chart with [...]
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Today’s jolt arrived mid-afternoon when I hauled out a (paper!) calendar to jot something down. The square for September 1st remained unadorned by red heart and sparkling star stickers. Nowhere on my calendar had I written “anniversary!!!” in big purple letters with a trinity of exclamation points; neither on the Month At A Glance nor [...]
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Growing up Jewish in Northern Jersey, what did I know about St. Ignatius Loyola? Not much. Fast forward to the late 1980s and I’m at his feet, sort of literally. Where? At the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Lenox, Massachusetts.* Unless it has been blasted out, there’s a ginormous mosaic of St. Ignatius [...]
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Seems to me the word “mitzvah” is being used a lot these days. Usually it shows up in exclamations: “It’s a mitzvah.” Maybe I’m noticing this because the recent preponderance of unnaturally natural disasters has highlighted people reaching out to help one another. Or, maybe this is all going on in my mind? I wouldn’t [...]
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Exaggeration or reality? There’s not a person of faith — dead or alive — who hasn’t at some point trudged through a desert landscape of dusty dry and somewhat dessicated prayer. By grace, our rote prayers at these times provide comfort by virtue of their structure. By faith, we know mind, heart and spirit will [...]
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Lent? Not a big fan of this season, even though I’m very fond of purple, love soup and rarely pass up opportunities to ponder great mysteries. During Lent I am, as they say in some circles, “restless, irritable and discontent.” Please know that this not from giving up chocolate. I never renounce stuff like chocolate. [...]
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