Tag: work
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Transfiguration
Everyone seemed tired today – but happy. The tiredness, and the happiness, would have been related to yesterday’s Cajun Dinner. The Cajun Dinner is an annual event: the Saturday night before Ash Wednesday, or, alternatively, the Saturday night before Mardi Gras. It takes place in the all-purpose room of the church, which one of the…
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Happy Hawaiian Shirt Day!
Once upon a time, where I used to work, we celebrated the official arrival of Spring every year with Hawaiian Shirt Day. This was in Chicago, so there was a good chance we’d be wearing our Hawaiian shirts to work under our anoraks. But it didn’t matter, because we knew we’d turned the corner. From…
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Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
[Something a little less than a sermon on the Uniform Series text for this Sunday, Acts 6:1-8:] As we look in on this episode from Acts, this story of the life of the early Church, here’s what we see: a conflict is taking shape. That’s the first thing. These early Christians do their best to…
Matters of Interpretation 