Monthly Archives: May 2012

Mystery

Posted on May 31, 2012 by sonyasutton

I love mystery.  Not so much reading mysteries, though my younger self was devoted to Nancy Drew, but just a certain comfort level with the unknown.  Clearly I would make a terrible scientist. Trinity Sunday, this coming Sunday, generally flummoxes … Continue reading →

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God in Ordinary

Posted on May 30, 2012 by deborahmeister

I traveled to New York City last weekend to attend the funeral of a woman who had been like a grandmother to me. (For a few years, she had actually been my grandmother; my family looks more like a grove … Continue reading →

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Venerable, Just Like Bede

Posted on May 29, 2012 by matthewhanisian

With apologies to loyal Daily Cup readers, this was the entry that was SUPPOSED to have gone out on Friday…here it is a couple of days late.  I hope you enjoy it all the same! Peace and Blessings,     … Continue reading →

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Failed

Posted on May 29, 2012 by ronatstalbansdc

There is a use of the word “failed” that really bugs me, and I get the chance to be bugged almost daily by news reports on the radio and TV and in the paper.  It is in the phrase “Congress … Continue reading →

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Protection

Posted on May 28, 2012 by stalbansparish

On this Memorial Day I give thanks for those who have answered the call and protected many they did not know.  Those who have swallowed their fear and have run toward danger.  Those who have internalized and made reflexive the … Continue reading →

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The round earth’s imagined corners

Posted on May 24, 2012 by sonyasutton

The Holy Sonnets of English poet John Donne (1572-1631) were written at a time when the devoutly Catholic Donne reluctantly became an Anglican priest upon strong “encouragement” from King James I.  Donne’s brother had been jailed for protecting a Catholic … Continue reading →

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The Spirit Searches Everything

Posted on May 23, 2012 by deborahmeister

What moves you with wonder and awe? For many thousands of years, looking up at the night sky has been an experience of primal wonder for women, men, and children. I remember vividly being woken as a child and taken … Continue reading →

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Penance

Posted on May 22, 2012 by ronatstalbansdc

This isn’t a personal story, but you might get something out of it anyway. It seems that a Cardinal Archbishop of Paris many years ago told a group of newly ordained priests, this story about three young men, students at … Continue reading →

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To Last a Lifetime

Posted on May 21, 2012 by stalbansparish

How long is a lifetime?  A glance at an actuarial table will tell you something about average life expectancy, but no guarantees there.  My Grandmother and Great-Grandmother lived well into their eighties; my first two children never saw a birthday. … Continue reading →

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I will see you again

Posted on May 18, 2012 by matthewhanisian

The gospel passage for today is John 16:20-23: “Very truly, I tell you, you will weep and mourn, but the world will rejoice; you will have pain, but your pain will turn into joy. When a woman is in labour, she … Continue reading →

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