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My first teen

Monsignor — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 12:28:32 +0000

Today my oldest son turned 13. It is a milestone I have thought about several times over my life, calculating how old I would be when my first teenager appeared. I am stunned by the pace with which I have arrived at this point. I often reflect on my younger years now and marvel how, …

What!? me?

Monsignor — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 06:19:50 +0000

With sniper-like skill we target the faults of others, as a hawk spies a tiny mouse from a lofty height; all the while missing the wood amidst the forest of our own error.

Intemperansh.shh..

Monsignor — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 09:05:48 +0000

I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice. The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking …

When push comes to shove

Monsignor — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 05:41:22 +0000

There are many circumstances we can find ourselves in that test our integrity. Many people I have spoken to agree that they never really know how they will respond in a given situation, until they are actually in it. Well, today my 12 year old son and his friend (also 12) were robbed on their …

Discipline

Monsignor — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 02:52:25 +0000

I think it’s worthwhile clarifying something about discipline as it is a word that, in my experience, is so often associated with punishment. To discipline someone actually means to train them. I suppose the confusion about punishment might come from childhood days of chastisement, when a parent’s efforts at positive forms of reinforcing good behaviour, on …

Angry God

Monsignor — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 10:39:47 +0000

God is capable of great anger and great mercy…but mostly great anger. Homer Simpson I don’t agree.

Grub and bevvies

Monsignor — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:11:33 +0000

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