“DON’T SHOOT—BIRDIE AND I HAVE CAUGHT THE WOLF…”
It’s the climax of Sergei Prokofiev’s famous Peter and the Wolf. I just happen to be listening to a recording of it conducted by (and narrated by) Leonard Bernstein—it is part of the celebration of the 100th anniversary of Lennie’s birth, later this month. I also...
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WHY? Many questions come to me in the course of a week or a month. Sometimes I actually have a good answer—not always, unfortunately (if a “good answer” is one that truly satisfies the questioner). But at Our Savior church there is a perennial question—one I was...
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WHAT MORE, O LORD? [Author’s note: this Tuesday is the Memorial of St Ignatius Loyola...] This was the great question that St Ignatius Loyola constantly presented to himself (and so to his followers in what became the Society of Jesus). The Latin word is magis—...
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WHAT SHOULD BE DONE WITH FEAR AND SADNESS? The Gospel today reflects on Jesus’ withdrawal to a deserted place (NOT necessarily the Sahara desert; just where no one was living). He pities the people who follow Him, and He teaches them. It is a fine prelude...
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FAN MAIL It’s happened three times, now, in the last 2-3 months. I get postcards (always hand printed and always unsigned) explaining where and why Catholics are “disobeying the Saviour [sic]…” The postcard is of an adobe village in New Mexico; the card...
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