There are many days when I have wished time to go faster. There are many days when I’ve wanted them to be over and to be able to move on to the next one.
Tag: time
Book signing at St. Peter Church, Ashton
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Time is ticking away: thoughts on life and death
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If you knew the date of your death, how would you live differently?
Such a question may seem strange, but it is one I think about once in a while. Perhaps, I would live fearlessly; knowing how much time I have left would enable me to take risks and face danger more boldly.
If I was facing a premature death, would that knowledge painfully shadow my thoughts and feelings every day? If I was blessed with a long life, maybe I would be tempted to put off conversion, foolishly thinking I have so much time to pull things together.
Obviously, all of these questions and thoughts are moot, since we know neither the day nor the hour of our passing from this life.
Creed of the People of God, Part 8
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This is the final installment of this series of essays commemorating the 50th anniversary of Pope Paul VI’s Creed of the People of God. The final portions of the creed touch on the Mass and the Eucharist, time, and eternity.
Box of Joy drop-off dates and times
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Immaculate Heart of Mary School to start all-year early childhood program
MONONA — “They’re going to get a whole lot of Jesus, and that’s a good thing,” said Callie Meiller, principal of Immaculate Heart of Mary (IHM) School in Monona.
She spoke on the new all-year round, full-time early childhood program starting at the school this fall.
It will be open to children ages three to five.
A new opportunity
The program is taking the place of the preschool program, which previously ran only two-day and three-day programs during the school year.Remember the elderly in the autumn of their lives
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October 1 is International Day of Older Persons as declared by the United Nations.
It is appropriate to celebrate this day during the fall of the year in order to focus upon the elderly’s autumn blessings and needs. An elderly Italian couple reminded me of this recently.
Visiting the elderly
On August 9, 2016, in Rome, Italy, four policemen visited the home of Michele, a 94-year-old man and Jole, his 89-year-old wife.
After 70 years of marriage, they still loved each other, but they were suffering from the cross of loneliness, partially because their neighbors were vacationing and also because of upsetting TV reports about terrorists’ attacks and abused children.
Porn and the curse of total sexual freedom
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A recent issue of Time Magazine features a fascinating and deeply troubling article on the prevalence of pornography in our culture.
The focus of the piece is on the generation of young men now coming of age, the first generation who grew up with unlimited access to hardcore pornography on the Internet. The statistics on this score are absolutely startling.
Christmas and the mystery of time
As we come upon Christmas, I’d like to take a moment to put on my old hat from my time as a philosophy professor — but I’ll try to do it in a way befitting this limited space and broad audience.
How a sandwich taught me to trust in Jesus
Last month and for the second year in a row, I went on a private retreat. Basically, I took some time off from everything in my life, spent a weekend at an area retreat center, and used my self-imposed “free time” to pray, read, reflect, (and sometimes nap!).