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Walk the Talk

Walk the Talk
‘Walk the talk’.  That may be the simplest way of expressing Jesus’ message to us today.  Our late beloved Pope Francis, in his encyclical “Fratelli Tutti”, says it this way: “Now there are only two kinds of people:  those who care for someone who is hurting and those who pass by; those who bend down…
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St. Margaret of Cortona

St. Margaret of Cortona
Margaret of Cortona is the patron saint of single mothers and the homeless. Her story begins in 1247 in Laviano, Tuscany, where she was born into a farming family. Her mother died when Margaret was seven years old and life with her stepmother was very difficult. At age seventeen, Margaret met a young Tuscan nobleman…
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Return

Return
‘Return’, that one word, ‘Return’ was highlighted on the cover of our parish bulletin and eblast last week.  No, it wasn’t there because someone lost something valuable and wanted it back, and it wasn’t there because Fr. Walsh had just returned from Ireland.  It was there in bold, broad letters because RETURN is the theme…
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Perseverance

Perseverance
Photo: “82 Stevenson Savart 0211” via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ For the past week or more, we’ve been watching true grit and perseverance at work during the Winter Olympics. There was Lindsey Vonn who at age 41, returned to competitive skiing, overcoming a torn ACL to compete in the downhill event. …
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