Chris L Rice, OFS

"You will save the world by making your suffering a protest of salvation...You will save the world if you die in your poverty while yearning for better times, making your whole life a prayer." #SaintOscarRomero

My new tshirt!

Our lady of Guadalupe pray for us!

mediate while I drive on the five wounds of Christ.

Happy Friday, and Happy St. Nicholas’ Day! Here are the office readings for today. The church traditionally prescribes Fridays as a day for fasting, if you feel so moved.

Psalms: 16, 17 (AM)
22 (PM)

Lessons

Isaiah 3:8-15
1 Thessalonians 4:1-12
Luke 20:41-21:4

Almost eight years ago I joined the Catholic church. Why not join the Anglicans? Because I came to believe in the Church Dorothy Day and St Francis stayed in even when they were opposed and lied about. There is no perfect sinless group. If there were they’d have surely died out long ago.

“If we do not forgive perfectly, Lord, make us forgive perfectly, so that we may really love our enemies for love of you, and pray fervently to you for them, returning no one evil for evil, anxious only to serve everybody in you.”

— St. Francis of Assisi

I got the dogs a new bed.

Help Save Christopher Collings Before December 3rd Execution Date Time is running out. Christopher Collings is scheduled to be executed at 6:00 p.m. on December 3rd at the Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Bonne Terre, Missouri. This would mark Missouri's fourth execution in 2024 alone – a sobering continuation of state-sanctioned killings that undermine our justice system and moral fabric.Critical Legal ConcernsThe path to Chris's death sentence is marked by troubling legal failures that demand our attention: • The State violated Chris'

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Governor Parsons plz exonerate Chris Collings.

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Jesus wasn’t a white man. European depictions of him do a disservice.

Early morning at vchcenter.org before the crowds arrive for breakfast.

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