My Companions: We have prayers of gratitude for Audrey Fox delivered a healthy baby last week. But we also have prayers of sorrow: one of Cullen’s students, Emily Johnson, died Saturday in an auto accident. (see http://www.journalstar.com/news/article_ac232560-8f95-11de-862c-001cc4c002e0.html). A prayerful hug of those near and dear to you is in order after learning this. Nick (Katie Lay’s fiancée) had a challenging medical exam (see brother Don’s comment on last weeks post) and Josh Parise (Christine Lay Parise’s husband) fights a fever so pray for them. While we are at it let us pray in gratitude for the good health many of us enjoy.
Birthdays this week: James Carnegie 8/26,
Keeping-in-touch: I had a wonderful experience serving the faculty of Presentation of Our Lady Catholic School to a retreat experience in the mountains. Marge and I were treated to dinner twice last week with Tom Duggan and Margie and with the Carnegies! We “baked at the ballpark” with the DePriests… but the Rockies won!
Birthdays this week: James Carnegie 8/26,
Keeping-in-touch: I had a wonderful experience serving the faculty of Presentation of Our Lady Catholic School to a retreat experience in the mountains. Marge and I were treated to dinner twice last week with Tom Duggan and Margie and with the Carnegies! We “baked at the ballpark” with the DePriests… but the Rockies won!
The Readings:
http://www.usccb.org/nab/083009.shtml
Comments on the Readings: Fr. Foley: The interior life of Jesus is the Holy Spirit. Jesus knew that any law of the Kingdom of God must emerge from the love he found in love or else be empty http://www.liturgy.slu.edu/22OrdB083009/reflections_foley.html
My Comments: I am dumbfounded (if you can believe that) at times when I think of how the law/laws can serve us… and keep us alive. Yet, at other times, the blind following of laws delude me into complacency. I pray for a heart that is “on fire” with the Spirit that transcends all laws.
May the peace of Christ be with each of you.
John
http://www.usccb.org/nab/083009.shtml
Comments on the Readings: Fr. Foley: The interior life of Jesus is the Holy Spirit. Jesus knew that any law of the Kingdom of God must emerge from the love he found in love or else be empty http://www.liturgy.slu.edu/22OrdB083009/reflections_foley.html
My Comments: I am dumbfounded (if you can believe that) at times when I think of how the law/laws can serve us… and keep us alive. Yet, at other times, the blind following of laws delude me into complacency. I pray for a heart that is “on fire” with the Spirit that transcends all laws.
May the peace of Christ be with each of you.
John
Please pray for one of our eighth grade students, Begueydl Rivera – she fell 30 ft. in an accident in July and has a head injury. No longer can talk very well. Pray for the soul of Vivian Wacholz, mother of Larry Wacholz who died yesterday
ReplyDeleteAfter a two week battle with necrotizing fasciitis, our beloved Fr. Joseph Merton Hirsch III died on Monday afternoon at Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Hospital in Denver. Fr. Joe was an integral part of the Regis community for twenty-four years. As an Affiliate Faculty in the College for Professional Studies he taught undergraduate courses in religion, philosophy, history and oral communication. Regis University honored him with the “Excellence in Teaching” Award. He also taught courses in the Master of Non Profit and Master of Arts Program.
ReplyDeleteFr. Joe served with distinction as Rector and Dean of Holy Transfiguration of Christ Orthodox Cathedral in Denver since 1984. In 1991 he was made an Archpriest and awarded the Jeweled Cross and Synodal Letter of Commendation by the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Orthodox Church in America in 2000. For over twenty years, Joe was active in social issues of poverty, children’s mental health and environmental justice and facilitated and authored the first draft of the Comprehensive Neighborhood Plan of the Globeville Community which was adopted by the Denver City Council in 1989.