When the End is the Beginning Thoughts on Holy Thursday, April 18, 2019 by Rev. Jim Ryan, jimryan6885@gmail.com Revelation 22:13 “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.” Over the past 8 years or so I have been searching for an understanding of Sacrament, in particular…
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From Life to Life © Thoughts on the 5th Sunday in Lent, April 7, 2019 by Rev. Jim Ryan, jimryan6885@gmail.com “See how he loved him.” John 11:36 The Gospel today is the story of the Raising of Lazarus Jean’s sister Joyce is dying. She is in hospice receiving comfort and palliative care. It is only…
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Face-timing God’s Way Thoughts on the 3rd Sunday in Lent, March 24, 2019 by Rev. Jim Ryan, jimryan6885@gmail.com Exodus 33: 22-23 God said to Moses, “When my glory passes I will set you in the hollow of the rock and will cover you with my hand until I have passed by. ….(Y)ou may see my…
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Am I Your “Chosen One” too? © Thoughts on the 2nd Sunday in Lent, March 17, 2019 Transfiguration of Jesus & Patrons of Ireland – Patrick, Brigid, Columba by Rev. Jim Ryan, jimryan6885@gmail.com Luke 9:35 “This is my own, my Chosen One.” We’re heading into the time of big events – not only Holy Week,…
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For those who, in search of unfrozen fresh air, opened the windows today, March 14 – first time since December – this seer’s take on imagination: John O’Donohue, The Celtic Imagination in Beauty: the Invisible Embrace, p.132f “Because we tend to see our experience as a product, we have lost the ability to be surprised…
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“Justly Generous” Thoughts on the 7th Sunday in Ordinary Time, February 24, 2019 by Rev. Jim Ryan, jimryan6885@gmail.com Today’s passage from the Gospel of Luke may have been one continuous teaching by Jesus from the beginning of the reading to its end. But, I doubt it. It occurs to me that what we have here…
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“We’ve made a THING!” Thoughts on the 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time, February 17, 2019 by Rev. Jim Ryan, jimryan6885@gmail.com We celebrated Black History Month with an Opening Litany that was taken from prayers of 4 of the Giants of that history. You can find the Litany at the end of this document. In the…
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Thoughts on the 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time, February 3, 2019 by Rev. Jim Ryan, jimryan6885@gmail.com If you hold to the theory, as I do, that Jesus grew into his identity then this event of Jesus’ visit to Nazareth, when seen in terms of his own personal history, is one of baseline importance. Take a…
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Thoughts on the 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, January 27, 2019 by Rev. Jim Ryan, jimryan6885@gmail.com We will return to this later, but let’s first put a picture in our minds. Picture Jesus showing up on Sabbath in his hometown synagogue and claiming to be the One who has been expected for at least 500…
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“Light of Life ….. Truth of Life” © Thoughts on the Feast of the Baptism of Jesus, January 13, 2019 by Rev. Jim Ryan, jimryan6885@gmail.com When I was studying the Sacred Sciences and preparing for ministry back in the day at Catholic Theological Union, one of the faculty members was Callistus Langerholz. He was a…
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