https://youtu.be/Py-yVyCXsRk In 1999, the best-selling author and acknowledged master of the modern horror novel, Stephen King, was hit by a car while walking near his home. The accident left him with severe injuries. In an interview for a national magazine, King wrote that having a close brush with death taught him to contemplate the real […]
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Saturday of the 3rd Week in Ordinary Time
https://youtu.be/QX6FpX35oKg Let us pray. Oh God, every moment we live is Your gift to us. Help us to remember that Your very breath gives breath to us… That Your spirit enables us to move and love and be… Fill our hearts with gratitude… Gratitude that does not humiliate or depress us, but gratitude that […]
Continue ReadingFriday of the 3rd Week in Lent
https://youtu.be/Va87pGcRnWI She was the daughter of emotionally-distant parents, a couple always at war with each other and their children. She grew up believing that there was something wrong with her, that she was ungracious, selfish, and coal. The label stuck into her teens and as a young adult. Friendships and relationships were disastrous because she […]
Continue ReadingThursday of the 3rd Week in Lent
https://youtu.be/3F_C8ZB3Pxk Today Father Jerry shares that in Thornton Wilder’s play The Skin of Our Teeth, Maggie Antrobus confronts her husband who is about to leave her for his mistress. She tells him, “I didn’t marry you because you were perfect, George, I married you because you gave me a promise. That promise made up for […]
Continue ReadingMeatless Meals: Crabmeat Imperial
by Father Jerry 2 T. lemon juice 2 lbs. cooked crab meat, bones removed and flaked 4 oz. cream cheese 1/2 c. cream 3 green onions, finely chopped 2 T. melted butter 1/4 tsp. dill weed salt and pepper, to taste 1/4 c. Parmesan cheese 4 T. fresh bread crumbs 4 T. grated Parmesan cheese […]
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