Mark Saucier
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The song was a prayer about growing old and grieving loss.
The singer, in his 70s, a face etched with lines of hard times, played an ancient guitar.
The lyrics were heartfelt, moving and …
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By Mark Saucier
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9/17/26
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“Tell me, what is it you plan to do / with your one wild and precious life?” Mary Oliver asks on “A Summer Day.”
Quaker author Parker Palmer responds , “Before I can tell my life what …
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By Mark Saucier
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9/17/26
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The song was a prayer about growing old and grieving loss.
The singer, in his 70s, a face etched with lines of hard times, played an ancient guitar.
The lyrics were heartfelt, moving and …
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By Mark Saucier
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9/3/26
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Yesterday, my 5-year-old granddaughter, as she is wont to do, started singing in the back seat of the car.
She made me think of Jubal.
Genesis 4 tells us that Lamech had three sons. The …
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By Mark Saucier
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8/20/26
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It’s the most famous of all of Jesus’s miracles.
Everyone who’s spent some time in church knows the story.
A big crowd. Jesus spent hours curing the sick. It got late, and the people …
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By Mark Saucier
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8/6/26
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On average, 175,000 people die each day. But it only takes one death to burrow in and niggle our complacency. Ted’s did that for me.
He was a corporate lawyer, father of four, had a passion …
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By Mark Saucier
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7/22/26
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We were going to our daughter’s. We exited the highway and were approaching a stop sign when I noticed him on the side of the road.
He was in his mid-to-late 30s. He had short, dark hair and a …
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By Mark Saucier
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7/9/26
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We were driving back from a family vacation in East Tennessee.
We had stopped for gas when a middle-aged man in jeans, boots, and a tucked-in tee came up to my open window.
“Hi,” he …
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By Mark Saucier
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6/24/26
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This reflection was originally published June 11, 2011, three weeks after a deadly EF-5 tornado struck Joplin, Missouri:
He had no ties to the city, no family or friends there.
He’d …
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By Mark Saucier
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6/12/26
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In the story of Pentecost in Acts, we are told, “Staying in Jerusalem at the time were devout Jews of every nation under heaven.”
There was a reason for that. Those Jews were celebrating …
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By Mark Saucier
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6/1/26
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We left early, hoping to avoid the morning rush hour. Beyond that, we wanted to reach the one-lane section of I-40 before the traffic thickened.
There were construction slowdowns and the gnarl …
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By Mark Saucier
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5/14/26
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Forgiveness was a big deal for Jesus.
He practiced it up until his dying breath and urged us to do the same.
“Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.”
Jesus …
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By Mark Saucier
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5/1/26
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“Peace be with you,” Jesus said to his disciples in the locked room.
Those words in the Gospel of John are unremarkable in themselves. By the time of Jesus, “Shalom aleichem,” or …
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By Mark Saucier
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4/16/26
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Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, when he was archbishop of Paris, told the story of three young teens having some fun at the expense of the local parish priest.
The boys each concocted a list of …
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By Mark Saucier
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4/2/26
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In Greek mythology, there’s the Riddle of the Sphinx: “What creature walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three legs in the evening?”
The answer is “man,” who …
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By Mark Saucier
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3/18/26
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Ash Wednesday and Good Friday are days of fast and abstinence.
We abstain from meat every Friday in Lent.
These rules are barely a vestige of the ancient “Black Fast.”
Early …
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By Mark Saucier
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3/5/26
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We went to church with our son and his family.
Theirs is a young, vibrant community, but their worship space has the acoustics of an airport terminal.
Coupled with my diminished hearing, …
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By Mark Saucier
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2/19/26
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Another year has elapsed, full of joys I underappreciated and gifts I did not deserve.
Its passing raises many questions.
I’m well into the second half of life. The last quarter has …
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By Mark Saucier
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2/4/26
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Unlike the other three gospels, the Gospel of John has no narrative of the Baptism of Jesus.
In the first scene of the gospel after the prologue, John the Baptist is accosted by an investigative …
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By Mark Saucier
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1/22/26
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It was our young granddaughter’s Christmas dance recital.
We were sitting up front. From our angle, you could see the little backlit silhouettes in the wing being herded into position for the …
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SAUCIER — A time to dance
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1/8/26
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