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Sep 3
3 min

The Prophetic Imagination in a new year of old ills

Last spring, we saw that Covid was the perhaps the most challenging phenomenon with which to deal wisely and safely. But by the end of la...

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Devin O'Donnell

May 21
3 min

Amid the flood of mortal ills

The year 2019-2020 has been what some might call a “doozy.” First it was rolling blackouts in the fall, where PG&E would preemptively cut...

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Devin O'Donnell

May 13
1 min

Finis coronat opus

Remember people, "The ending crowns the work." That is how things are judged. Let's finish strong! Here's the agenda for today.

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Devin O'Donnell

May 6
2 min

May Magnificat

Here is a fitting poem for this week by Gerard Manley Hopkins. May is Mary’s month, and I Muse at that and wonder why : Her feasts follow...

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Devin O'Donnell

Apr 21
3 min

The Significance of Christus Victor

"Because I could not stop for death," Dickinson writes, "he kindly stop for me." Death is such a gentlemen, you know. "The carriage held ...

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Good Friday and the "Passus" of the Gospel

Devin O'Donnell

Apr 8
6 min

Good Friday and the "Passus" of the Gospel

It is Good Friday and we are in a pandemic. This is a good time to contemplate the role of suffering in the life of the Christian. This i...

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Devin O'Donnell

Apr 1
2 min

Lent & Shelter-in-Place

I'd like to draw attention to the Church calendar and the fact that we are still in Lent. Like it or not, a kind of Lent has greeted ever...

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Devin O'Donnell

Mar 24
2 min

Learning in Covid-19 Time

In this time, it's common to be stressed and anxious over many things. We are being forced to do this differently and to use new technolo...

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Et ne nos inducas in tentationem and life in the fast lane

Devin O'Donnell

Mar 6
2 min

Et ne nos inducas in tentationem and life in the fast lane

We pray this almost every day. And yet it says in Matthew that after he was baptized, "he was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wildern...

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"From dust thou ‭art‭, and unto dust shalt thou return."

Devin O'Donnell

Feb 28
2 min

"From dust thou ‭art‭, and unto dust shalt thou return."

Two days ago was Ash Wednesday, which marks a day of corporate repentance for sins and the beginning of the penitential season of Lent. T...

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Devin O'Donnell

Feb 14
2 min

Happy SAINT Valentines Day!

Happy Feast Day of St. Valentine! He takes his name from the Latin adjective valens, meaning "strong," "effective, or "influential." Alth...

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Devin O'Donnell

Feb 7
2 min

Confess your Sins

Why confess your sin? I have tried to answer to this question for our students in several ways. Because it puts us right with God. Becaus...

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Devin O'Donnell

Jan 24
2 min

From Big to Little

Remember the Roman cognomen "Paulus"? It means "small." Before Paul's conversion we hear of a proud and zealous man named Saul, which mea...

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Devin O'Donnell

Jan 20
1 min

Baptism of the Lord

January 12th was the Feast Day of the Baptism of the Lord. Below is Tintoretto's depiction of Christ's baptism. It's clear that such arti...

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It's dark out there. And Happy Christmas!

Devin O'Donnell

Dec 13, 2019
2 min

It's dark out there. And Happy Christmas!

Advent reminds us of many things, one of which is that God came to us in the dark. It is a time to consider the primordial darkness befor...

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Devin O'Donnell

Nov 22, 2019
1 min

Happy Thanksgiving!

Here's the agenda.

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Devin O'Donnell

Nov 15, 2019
1 min

Long Haul

I know we are in the long haul, Fatigue settles upon us all, This stretch that extends like wilderness Cannot discredit Christ's own prom...

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Devin O'Donnell

Oct 25, 2019
3 min

Come on, people!

The school year usually begins with a bit of a shotgun blast. We rub our eyes from the summer slumber and drag ourselves to the starting ...

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Finding Peace in the Absurdity of Teaching

Devin O'Donnell

Oct 11, 2019
2 min

Finding Peace in the Absurdity of Teaching

"And behold, we looked and saw the ridiculousness that is done under the sun: wind storms threaten but do not come; PG&E says it will cut...

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Devin O'Donnell

Sep 27, 2019
1 min

Michaelmas

Soon it will be "Michaelmas," which is the Feast of Saint Michael and All Angels. This is on September 29th and because of this is a lso ...

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