Anthony

Friday of the Twenty-fifth Week in Ordinary Time Haggai 2:1-9; Luke 9:18-22

My reflection on today's readings in light of Paul Kingsnorth's new book, Against the Machine

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Women want him; men want to be him.

Friday of the Twenty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time Luke 8:1-3

The Never Ending Tour of the Gospel

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Thursday of the Twenty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time Luke 7:36-50

We love labeling people. Maybe we shouldn't do that so much.
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Memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows John 19:25-27

I wrote poem for Our Lady of Sorrows

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Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross Philippians 2:6-11; John 3:13-17

Do we still reject a crucified Messiah? Some people want a superhero rather than a suffering servant.

My reflection on the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross

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Talk about Valhalla for someone who lives in Westchester, NY inevitably calls to mind that weird little diner alongside the Bronx River Parkway.

So comforting that even the LOTH has an ISBN

Friday of the Twenty-third Week in Ordinary Time Luke 6:39-42

Trying to remove the beam from my eye, day by day.

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Memorial of Saint Gregory the Great, Pope and Doctor of the Church Psalm 52:10, 11; Luke 4:38-44

Jesus: the greatest ER Doctor of all time. A reflection on today’s Gospel featuring The Pitt.

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Tuesday of Twenty-second Week in Ordinary Time Luke 4:31-37

Does faith work?

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The amount of lentil soup I consume is more than any man is probably capable of matching. It therefore shows up in my dreams, too.

Ulster County, New York

Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time Sirach 3:17-18, 20, 28-29 and Luke 14:1, 7-14

George Harrison, Martin Buber, and Jesus

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Memorial of the Passion of Saint John the Baptist Mark 6:17-29

John the Baptist - not just a prequel

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Tuesday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time 1 Thessalonians 2:1-8; Psalm 139; Matthew 23:23-26

Emmanuel Levinas and self knowledge

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“the United States is not made up of well-adjusted adults; it’s made up of Americans.” Haha

Memorial of the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary Ruth 1:1-22

On Ruth and Peter’s Wife

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“The night of the year is approaching. What have we done with our talent? All nature prompts and reproves us. How early in the year it begins to be late! The year is full of warnings of its shortness, as is life.”

Henry David Thoreau
Journal entry on August 18, 1853

favorite movies beginning with each letter of my name

A - Apocalypse Now
N - No Country for Old Men
T - The Third Man
H - Heat
O - O Brother Where Art Thou
N - North by Northwest
Y - Yojimbo

It looks like the president holding a normal sized bottle.

70s cocktail parties sound awesome. ELO blaring in the background, everyone looking tacky but great because tackiness was tribal. I’m sad it resulted in a lack of language, though.

Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time Luke 12:49-53

Today’s Gospel made me think of Bonhoeffer

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Saturday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time Matthew 19:13-15

Anything other than a private taxi service in Rome is “beneath my dignity”

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Memorial of Saint Maximilian Kolbe, Priest and Martyr Matthew 18:21–19:1

Forgiving Darth Vader

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Memorial of Saint Clare Deuteronomy 10:12-22

God is not a witch. giattino.substack.com/p/memorial-o...

This made my day. After Mass the deacon reported to me that a parishioner had said to him that given the feast of St. Lawrence, she knew I would use the Roman Canon.

It’s a banger

Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Luke 12:32-48

Robin Hood as the Good and Faithful
Servant

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Memorial of Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross Matthew 17:14-20

Happy Edith Stein Day giattino.substack.com/p/memorial-o...