After Life

Gospel Scenes and Meditations

2011-04-16T12:03:00.001-07:00

Gospel Scenes and Meditations

021

2009-10-24T15:53:00.001-07:00

If suffering in purgatory brings us closer to heaven, so should suffering on earth.

020

2009-10-23T15:48:00.001-07:00

Love of neighbor is love of God's creation.

019

2009-10-23T09:34:00.001-07:00

Since God knows us better than we know ourselves, we should not fear what he asks of us.

018

2009-10-23T09:33:00.001-07:00

We are examples, though not always good examples, of something Great.

017

2009-10-22T09:38:00.001-07:00

How amazing that a collection of cells should be a plant, an animal, a person.

016

2009-10-21T19:39:00.001-07:00

It is not as if Jesus was prized for his carpentry.

015

2009-10-21T19:38:00.000-07:00

We have only One to please.

014

2009-10-06T10:00:00.000-07:00

Jésus Dit (ici selon Matthieu)

013

2009-10-05T09:51:00.000-07:00

Aphorisms of Nicolás Gómez Dávila

Nicolás Gómez Dávila (1913-1994)

012

2009-10-02T13:54:00.001-07:00

Sayings of St. John of the Cross

011

2009-08-29T15:52:00.001-07:00

Prières

010

2009-08-25T13:41:00.000-07:00

Prière

009

2009-08-18T16:46:00.000-07:00

Of the progressives, their many sins are forgiven, for they love much.

008

2009-08-18T13:38:00.000-07:00

Suffer with Jesus

007

2009-08-06T19:14:00.001-07:00

If they hear not Moses and the prophets, and Jesus, neither will they be persuaded, though one living rose to speak.

006

2009-08-02T04:45:00.001-07:00

He who falls should pray not to be tempted.

005

2009-08-02T04:44:00.001-07:00

The bath water of religion is dirty, but consider the baby.

004

2009-08-01T20:28:00.000-07:00

For Christians, the question whether health care is a human right was answered long ago, in the Parable of the Good Samaritan.

003

2009-03-04T16:48:00.001-08:00

We are like God in our desire to be loved.

002

2009-03-04T16:47:00.001-08:00

If this life did not matter, Jesus would not have gotten so angry.

001

2009-03-04T16:46:00.001-08:00

No one pities the devil.

Z(E)N

2009-02-01T05:01:00.000-08:00

Ted, who has beautiful handwriting, recounted again last night at dinner at the Holdens the time in his life when he was not able to properly form the letter 'n' on paper. To accomplish an 'n' he would rotate the page, write 'z', and return the page to its former angle to continue writing. Then for the first time in my hearing, Ted elaborated that he had been hospitalized for this ailment, isolated from other patients, for fear his condition might be infectious. Rezsin vouched for the condition, not for the hospitalization.

À Bresson

2008-12-12T09:32:00.000-08:00

I wanted this to look like For Robert Bresson.

Judgment

2008-11-19T18:50:00.000-08:00

On earth we are not so good or so bad as we think. In eternity we are much better or much worse than we think.

Dear God,

2008-11-11T14:40:00.000-08:00

I believe that you hear our every prayer. What more need I believe?

The Aprocrypha of Limbo

2008-07-01T12:14:00.000-07:00

I have read your poems, slowly, most of them twice, and am grateful that you sent them. The religious ones move me the most, but what delights me in all is the perfect ease with which your individual tongue speaks. You sound like yourself, there are no borrowed fluencies, you say what you mean — and it all sounds as if there were no other way to put the case. That is why these verses are poems.

— Jacques Barzun to Ralph de Toledano

See Ralph de Toledano.

Success

2008-06-01T09:55:00.000-07:00

Count no one successful in this life unless he enters the next. Jesus did not see many headed in that direction:

Strait [is] the gate, and narrow [is] the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

Many who think they will enter will not:

Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

Some who think they will not will:

The last shall be first

The Reverend Daniel J. Maher

2008-06-01T09:52:00.000-07:00

He celebrated his retirement Mass this morning at Holy Cross Church.

Inflation

2008-06-01T09:42:00.000-07:00

Inflation occurs when the dollar doesn't make sense.

Sister Dorothy Anne Flood

2008-04-05T08:00:00.000-07:00

Sister Dorothy Anne Flood

Flood, Sister Dorothy Anne CSJ LATHAM Sister Dorothy Anne Flood, CSJ (Sister Anne Robert), 81, died Wednesday, April 2, 2008, at St. Peter's Hospital, Albany. Sister Dorothy had been a Sister of St. Joseph of Carondelet for 64 years. Sister Dorothy was born in Syracuse on April 12, 1926, daughter of the late Charles and Marion Edgeworth Flood. After graduating from St. Vincent de Paul High School and attending Powelson Business Institute, she entered the Sisters of St. Joseph in 1944. Sister Dorothy received a bachelor's degree in music from The College of Saint Rose, a master's degree in music from Boston University and a doctorate in music education from Columbia University. In addition, she pursued post-graduate studies at Ohio State University, focusing on music in medieval life and culture. For 12 years, Sister Dorothy taught music in schools in the Albany and Syracuse Dioceses and was one of the first Sisters of St. Joseph to go to Fort Edward where she taught piano and worked in religious education. In 1958, she began a 38-year career in the music department of The College of Saint Rose, beginning as a piano instructor, moving to professor of music and serving as department chairperson. In 1994, Sister Dorothy was part of Sisters in Song, a national choir of Catholic sisters who made several recordings in Anaheim, Calif. Sister Dorothy possessed an enthusiastic and impassioned commitment both to her music and to her students. She was gifted with the ability to help students get to the core of a piece of music and find the best mechanism to make that piece come to life. In addition, Sister Dorothy was an extraordinary storyteller with a humorous anecdote for every occasion. Sister Dorothy was devoted to her faith, her family, her friends and her religious community, and her energetic presence will be missed by many. Sister Dorothy is survived by several nieces and nephews and their families, with special mention of Mary, Leo and Olivia Wong whose devotion was such a comfort; by many friends, including her dear friend, Sister Mary Anne Nelson; and by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet. In addition to her parents, Sister Dorothy was predeceased by her brother, Rev. Robert Flood, CSB; by her sister, Eleanor Murphy; and by many friends in the Sisters of St. Joseph. Sister Dorothy's funeral Liturgy will be held Monday, April 7, at 10:30 a.m. from the chapel of St. Joseph's Provincial House, Latham. Interment will be in Our Lady Queen of Virgins Cemetery on the Provincial House grounds. Calling hours will be held on Sunday, April 6 from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. at the Provincial House with a prayer service at 7:00 p.m. Contributions in Sister Dorothy's memory may be made to the Development Office of the Sisters of St. Joseph, 385 Watervliet-Shaker Road, Latham, NY 12110. Arrangements are under the direction of Dufresne & Cavanaugh Funeral Home 149 Old Loudon Rd., Latham, N.Y.

— Albany Times Union, April 5, 2008

Salve, Vale

2008-04-04T03:42:00.001-07:00

Hi, Dot!

Now you are your new self! I’m sure you must like it. Are you called Dot, or Dorth, or Dorothy, or some other name that God called you before you were born?

Please say hello to our friends — Bob, Eleanor, Louis, Aunt Helen, and my family — Janice, Harry (and Uncle Harry and Auntie Nee Chang, and Uncle Tin, and all other uncles and aunties, and Ah Kungs and Ah Pos). Is Hindemith there? Is Beethoven still decomposing?

Love to Sister Bridget and CSJs who went ahead of you. See you in eternity. I may have to introduce myself, since I am sure you won't recognize me. Perhaps you’ll help me be more on earth as you are in heaven.

Aloha,
Leo

After Life

2008-04-03T04:42:00.001-07:00

Dot died yesterday. Another friend in high places.