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Reflection for June 7, 2017

Where has he gone My dearest son? Perhaps during the uprising The cruel enemy killed him Ah, you bad people In the name of God, the most holy Tell me, why did you kill My son? Never again Will I … Continue reading

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Reflection for May 31, 2017

I went inside my heart to see how it was.  Something there makes me hear the whole world weeping.   –Rumi When sleeping women wake, mountains move. –A Chinese Proverb If ever there comes a time when women of the … Continue reading

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Reflection for May 24, 2017

According to A Course in Miracles, our job is to tell someone they’re right, even when they’re wrong.  That doesn’t mean we are supposed to lie.  It does mean, however, that it’s always our mission to affirm someone’s humanity, even … Continue reading

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Reflection for May 17, 201

The only way forward is in the direction of a common passion, for nothing in the universe can ultimately resist the cumulative ardor of the collective soul. Teilhard de Chardin People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness.  Just because … Continue reading

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Reflection for May 3, 2017

For many years, at great cost, I traveled through many countries, saw the high mountains, the oceans.  The only things I did not see were the sparkling dewdrops in the grass just outside my door. Rabindranath Tagore

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Geoff Wood Reflection for May 28, 2017

May 28 – Seventh Sunday Easter: John 17: 1-11 This chapter of John ends the Last Supper discourse with Jesus delivering a summary of what he has done to draw the world out of its corridor of habitual and blind … Continue reading

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Geoff Wood Reflection for May 21, 2017

May 21 – Sixth Sunday Easter: John 14: 15- 21 I will not leave you orphans; I’ll be just like Marcel’s grandmother, just on the other side of the wall, the corridor that entombs you.  I will come to you … Continue reading

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Geoff Wood Reflection for May 14, 2017

May 14 – Fifth Sunday Easter: John 14:1-14 On the eve of the Passion Jesus tells his disciples don’t be troubled.  “Trust me.”  He is going to leave their corridor of habit, the day-to-day tomb they mistake for fullness of … Continue reading

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Geoff Wood reflection for May 7, 2017

The May Gospel Discourses May 7 – Fourth Easter: John 10: 1 – 10 – The Good Shepherd Then they threw him [the man born blind] out. When Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, he found him and … Continue reading

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Geoff Wood Reflections for May, 2017

Liturgy Readings for May  2017 Gospels – 2017 – Cycle A Introduction The Forty Days The theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar (1909-1988) wrote a short (and to my mind his finest) work, A Theology of History, in which he speaks … Continue reading

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