Ordinary Old Catholic Me

A Perfect Ordinary Day

This episode was initially going to be a description of a rare day of peace doing ordinary things, but it turned out that it had real connection to the retreat I am trying to do, the ebbs and flows of consolation in the Lord and desolation because of original sin and how His sacrifice leads transforms desolation, suffering, into eternal consolation, into joy itself. 

What’s This Loosing and Binding Stuff?

A simple, but not so simple question, from a listener brought me to explore today's subject. What was the power to loose and bind that Jesus gave to Peter? What did it all mean? 

Stuff

Ramblings about seeking to be grateful to God for His Creation and to learn to trust Him in all things, especially when it is not as easy as watching a beautiful sunset.

What Is Going On Is Very Scary

Can you believe, it happened again? Another week at Mass. Another person walking away with God in her hand. It is the tip or the foundation below the water of the iceberg. Small disregard becomes larger and larger disregard of moral imperatives. The Church is not immune, as we know, but how frail the people of God have become seems to portend a terrifying response to come. 

That’s God In Your Hand!

I am not pretending to be holier than thou, I promise! But when I see someone, often many someones, receive Communion like they could not care less, or as if they have other, not so wonderful plans to desecrate the Host, my dander gets kicked up. 
That's God in our hands! That is how He is with us, always, until the end of time!

The Worst Times?

It is easy to think that the times in which we live might be the worst ever. But when you look at past times, and events, you are not so sure. But whether these are the worst times or not, the solution is the response that we make to the existential realities about us, our yes or no to the Higher Authority who created us, who redeemed us, who guides us. Either He exists and we cooperate with Him or He does not, and it doesn't matter about the times. Only one thing is true. 

Pray Pray Pray for Trust

Praying is difficult for me. And it's even harder to pray to Trust Him. I am a creature full of fear about what happens if. . . .a million things. And what if I trust and still the worst happens? The point isn't whether the worst does or does not happen. The trust itself is what ought to suffice. The trust will lead to a response of peace, no matter what the outcome. But I battle myself always to see this. And even in prayer I am battling. Pray anyway. Pray all the more. 

The ”Privileged Way” or the ”Non-Negotiable Way”?

This is a big subject and, as usual, I barely scratch the surface. Is it required that we all be Catholic to be saved? I look to the history, in brief, and give some thoughts as an ordinary old Catholic girl. Best thing to do is for each of us to study, and pray, and see what the Lord is telling us.

Brand Two: My Will, Your Will, God’s Will

I have returned to considerations of the Play "Brand". His "All Or Nothing" should, perhaps, give way to the paradoxical but more compassionate, "All And Nothing". What do you think?

2022: Continuing the Journey through the Desert to the Promised Land

It has been a discouraging two years, and sometimes it feels like trudging through a desert without ever finding the oasis. I find myself murmuring--complaining--about God's purposes. A priest friend reminds me of the Psalms, which I have hardly ever spent any time with, and they remind me of God's Modes of Action from the beginning of time, through the Israelites Exodus to our own to the Promised Land.