Use Your Common Sense Day is observed annually on November 4, since common sense is an important tool for living life. Common sense is “the applied knowledge of simple, sensible things”, such as not putting metal into microwaves or jumping into rivers without knowing what is under the water. This […]
33rd Sunday of Year C – 2019
People sometimes say that poets and prophets have a way with words. This expression means that poets and prophets have the gift of stirring up our imagination. They offer us… visions! Yes, they enable us to see things we had not perceived, or to see familiar things in a new […]
5th Sunday of Easter, Year C – 2019
Nowadays, technology has changed things, of course. But at the end of the year, in the not-so-distant past, we used to see such advertisement in the doors of shops. Business was temporarily stopped to make a list of the remaining commodities and see what needed to be bought for the […]
Holy Thursday, Year A
Memory… Memories… Personal… Shared… Cherished… Sometimes surprising… Precious… Our memory is an important part of ourselves. It can bring back to us forgotten experiences. It can recapture the sights and sounds of long-past events. It can place before our mind’s eye the faces of loved ones. At times, some people […]
Memories
We celebrated Remembrance Day yesterday. November is really the month of memories when souvenirs come back to us, one by one, or many of them all at once. Poets and writers meditate on this theme and share their thoughts with us. Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war […]