Sharing insights and inspiration that happen over a cup of tea
Sharing insights and inspiration that happen over a cup of tea
Category: GIft
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Every year, as Christmas approaches, I find one of my most memorable lessons happens while singing with the parish choir. Each year the lesson is different, but always unforgettable. This year, as I looked across to the soprano section during our annual Christmas concert, I was struck by how much I miss my friend, Joan,…
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I was first introduced to Harry Emerson Fosdick through a quote: “… real Christians do not carry their religion; their religion carries them. It is not weight, it is wings. It lifts them up, it sees them over hard places. It makes the universe seem friendly, life purposeful, hope real, sacrifice worthwhile. It sets them…
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As a Catholic, I have a confession to make. I sometimes watch televangelists. While there are many things that make me uncomfortable about this style of evangelizing, I have always felt it would be arrogant, and foolish, of me to suggest that God limits the wisdom of the Holy Spirit to only those of one…
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Recently, I made the familiar 160 mile drive to Albany, where I was born and raised, and where family memories play hide and seek behind low rock walls along the New York State Thruway, and yell “home free!” most often, it seems, when I pull in to the parking lot of Keenan’s Funeral Parlor. Here,…
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Surely, if God has given us any amazing gifts, the gift of friends is one of the best, especially the kind of friend who lasts a lifetime; the kind that is genuine and allows you to be the person you really are. My friend Rich is a friend like that. Our families have been friends…
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In a town near mine, there is a home unique in this area of sandy soil. It hosts a lovely English cottage garden. I noticed it when I stopped in a store nearby. An elderly gentleman was wielding pruning shears, preparing the garden for the full bloom of summer, when he caught me admiring his little…
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It’s not often that I get a chance to be immersed in an abundance of creative expressions of faith meant to transform hearts and lives, but that’s exactly what will happen tomorrow at the Diocese of Trenton’s Re:Image Film Festival at the Algonquin Arts Theatre in Manasquan. Last year’s festival was a real testimony to…
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In all of human experience I think there is nothing more painful than feeling abandoned. The gnawing pain of loneliness, the feeling of being unloved and unlovable, robs life of hope and purpose and intensifies any suffering we may be going through. It was my experience when depression took over a significant part of my…
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