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Cradle of the Savior, Part 3
English: Holy Family: Mary, Joseph and child Jesus (Photo credit: Wikipedia) We know the story, but they did not. Artistically, we have enhanced the scene. Many of the bleak realities are made a...
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Cradle of the Savior (part 3)
Surely there would have been better planning but the edict had been given. Caesar wanted a census of the whole world - the world he felt he had conquered. In today’s terms we would wonder if he had a...
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Cradle of the Savior (part 2)
Nazareth on the map of Israel (Photo credit: Wikipedia) In a small village of Nazareth, an ordinary couple discussed the journey. They had their own concerns. The journey could not have come at a...
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Cradle of the Savior, part 1
English: Bust of Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Octavius, first Roman Emperor. 27 BC – 14 AD, Marble. cm 42 From Rome, Via Merulana Capitoline Museum, Rome. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) By this decree it...
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Marianne
Not an excess word was spoken about Marianne not at the beginning of Mass, not in the homily, not in a eulogy, not a word. The thoughts shared told about having the electricity go out, having that...
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Emil
Gospel lawyers received little respect. They prodded and questioned. They gave opinions and conclusions. They knew more than those around them and let those around them know it. Seldom is love for a...
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Uncle Pete
Seventy – four is a good amount of years suitable for saying, “He had a full life.” Uncle Pete was remembered with humor. No time for listing the recent years since his wife died. No time for...
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Paul Glick
I listened to an interview with a man I had never met, nor heard of, nor ever seen, but knew he would speak to me. Under his name the phrase,”…dying of cancer…” was his definition. Yet in speaking,...
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Benjamin
Four years is all he had. Four questionable years. Four years of what type of acceptance? No mother makes a choice to give up her child with a lightness of heart. She ponders the...
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Arthur
I remember Arthur’s wedding day. Strange to think of now. Helen, his betrothed, called to arrange music. My, the traditional things she wanted - old music friends (“from when I was young…”...
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Grace
Grace died on Tuesday. She had little left in life. Probably her bed, a dresser table and chairs. Medicines and bills for care common room other elderly of the convalescent home and...
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Dear John
Alone – you are gone. I reach across to the unmussed pillow feeling the taut cover, but your impression isn’t there. I have tears and memories. Gone the relatives and well-wishers....
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Bert, I Hardly Knew You
Your friends told me about you and I wish I had known you when you were in your heyday, but then again, when did the heyday begin? How fortunate, your friends, challenged by your golf...
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Angelo
Angelo lived for his family, so his wife Mary told me, for his sons and his daughter, his son-in-law and daughters-in-law, his sister and nieces, his grand children and so on. He loved...
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Maureen
Married twenty‑three years, a mother, a wife, Maureen fought a cancer battle and during that fight found a life. Strange when faced with the visage of pain that new life seems to enter,...
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Beulah
Beulah met her maker, and as a sturdy middle‑aged relative said, “She had great courage, Aunt Beu.” She fought a sickness battle for years, so “Mr. Middle‑age,” Aunt Beu’s funeral...
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Kirk
Young Kirk was only twenty‑one only twenty-one and then a few days. He was one of two brothers of loving parents whose lives revolved around the two boys. He enjoyed playing at his father’s...
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Sailor’s Delight
Jim was a sailor, at least for that portion of his life over which he had any control. He planned his plans and charted courses, hoping his charted courses matched the courses he...
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Dynamic Duo
Dynamic Duo A tenor is a tenor or isn’t it? For funerals the regular duo are celebrant and cantor, priest and singer, always ready to serve the mourners. One hopes that the back and forth singing...
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Retrospect
At the end of each year whether on TV or radio or in the newspaper or in magazines special people are remembered. They have cured the so far incurable or written a definitive tome or taken that...
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