Mark Saucier
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“Can the sister get an Amen?”
She’d get it, too, from little Black kids to aging white bishops. A Franciscan whose death at 52 cheated the Church, Sister Thea Bowman spoke in a …
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By Mark Saucier
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8/3/22
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An old Roman philosopher said, “There is no easy way from earth to the stars.”
Nearly 2,000 years after Seneca’s death, we still haven’t made it, but we are getting …
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By Mark Saucier
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7/20/22
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When Moses was standing barefoot before the burning bush, getting his marching orders against Pharaoh, he asked, “Who shall I say sent me?”
The Voice then identifies itself as Yahweh: …
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By Mark Saucier
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7/7/22
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I was in a vain denial.
Then I realized that most of our dinner conversations consisted of me saying, “What?”
And then my pretense backfired when deafly nodding with a big grin to a …
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By Mark Saucier
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6/23/22
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“Our thoughts and prayers are with you.”
It’s a genuine response by some unable to say anything else in the face of another’s pain.
It may be cliché, but it is …
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By Mark Saucier
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6/8/22
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“... Do unto others as you would have them do to you ...”
Familiar, but these words in Matthew were not the source of the Golden Rule. It can be traced more than 4,000 years, …
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By Mark Saucier
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5/26/22
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As a kid, I knew that St. Blaise was the patron saint of throat ailments because his blessing was on my birthday, and I narrowly escaped the horror of being named Blaise.
After that, I never paid …
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By Mark Saucier
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5/11/22
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An iconic image in Celtic spirituality is the apostle John reclining next to Jesus at the Last Supper.
According to the Gospel of John, the apostle lays his head on the chest of Jesus to look up …
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By Mark Saucier
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4/28/22
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So, what’s it to you?
It wasn’t taunting but haunting, relentlessly popping up over the past few days.
The “it,” in this case, is the cross, and the question a bit of …
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By Mark Saucier
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4/13/22
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It is one of the most familiar parables. The son demands the inheritance from his father, gets it, blows through it living the high life, and then sinks into destitution.
Penniless, hungry and …
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By Mark Saucier
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3/30/22
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It’s a wonder where a word will take you.
In a book I’m reading, the author briefly references “Dayenu,” a song sung at Passover, recalling the kindness of God in the …
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Mark Saucier
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3/18/22
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For many of us, Lent begins with those sober words: “Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return.”
This echo of Adam and Eve’s expulsion from the Garden cautions us …
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By Mark Saucier
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3/3/22
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Last Sunday, a line in the first reading from Jeremiah hit me. The “weeping prophet” struck a joyful note when he described one who trusts in the Lord as “a tree planted beside the …
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By Mark Saucier
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2/18/22
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Meteorologists were cooking up the perfect storm with every ingredient they could find. “Blizzard conditions,” they said, and people ran out to buy up milk and ice-melt.
Kids got off …
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By Mark Saucier
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2/3/22
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I don’t know if it is a lack of creativity in the deepest doldrums of winter, but I tend to write a kind of personal State of the Union message about now.
It is another birthday this week. …
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By Mark Saucier
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2/3/22
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He knew it wasn’t his best sermon. He wandered, gave too much information, and few got his hilarious joke.
He failed to read the room and lost most listeners before he got …
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By Mark Saucier
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1/19/22
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We received a video of our youngest grandchild who just turned 1.
This was her first Christmas in which she was a conscious participant, and she loved every minute of it.
That was until Daddy …
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By Mark Saucier
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1/6/22
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Have you ever tried to map your thoughts?
Sometimes they flow like a stream of logic, at other times, they’re more a grasshopper on steroids.
The other day, I experienced what appeared to …
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By Mark Saucier
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12/15/21
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As kids, we had Advent wreaths made of coat hangers, cedar greens and nubby candles my mother refused to toss as long as there was some light left in them.
Advent means “coming,” …
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By Mark Saucier
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12/8/21
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I parked my car across the street. Getting out, I looked at our yard and saw the full autumn palette of golds and oranges and reds diffused among the trees.
But there was one that, at the very …
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By Mark Saucier
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11/24/21
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