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More Thee, less me - Days of Joy
A Lenten & Easter Reflection Series for Supporters
March 31, 2024
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Blessed & Happy Easter Dearest Friends & Digital Neighbors! Happy Sunday ADD Irregulars, WSN Curators, and all visitors to this community. Throughout these last 40+ days you have been in my prayers and often on my mind. I am blessed to shepherd this freer flowing community here.  This is a great place of laughter, discussion, and that miraculous sort of friendship that this day and age has afforded us. While our age is plagued with many problems and worries, this is a place to step aside from the battle out there and regroup, recharge, and reengage the world without being consumed by the battle.  There is no sugarcoating how dire things are becoming, and yet we all know that we can do our best to tend to our acre of reality and make it a haven against the madness.

Today is my favorite day of the year and my favorite season to celebrate what it is all about in this strange and wonderous life we have been invited to share. Few songs can capture more how I think, feel, and want to be for Jesus that this song. It was "my song" when I was ordained. I had found the love that had overshadowed my life & my heart. I have spent the last thirty-one years running on faith, taking each day as it comes, making some days an offering pleasing to the Lord, having far too many that were just days of punching the time clock and existence and a few that were days of regret.

All I can do is offer contrition and amendment on the bad days, try to fill the blah days with more life & gratitude, and ride those golden days until the last drops of joy and wonder have been squeezed out of them. I have been given far more than I have ever deserved or merited.  Thank you for joining me these last 46 days for these daily musings.  More to come as we celebrate 50 days of Life and future of promise.

                                                                   Peace, Tom-Padre   

 

 

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Today marks the three hundred and thirtieth birthday of the Frenchman François-Marie Arouet, better known by his nom de plume, Voltaire (1694-1778).

Born into a bourgeois family during the reign of Louis XIV, the “Sun King” (r. 1643-1715), Voltaire suffered tragedy at a young age when his mother died. Never close with his father or brother, Voltaire exhibited a rebellious attitude toward authority from his youth. His brilliant mind was fostered in the care of the Society of Jesus, who introduced him to the joys of literature and theater. Despite his later criticisms against the Church, Voltaire, throughout his life, fondly recalled his dedicated Jesuit teachers.

Although he spent time as a civil servant in the French embassy to the Hague, Voltaire’s main love was writing—an endeavor where he excelled in various genres, including poetry, which led to his appointment as the royal court poet for King Louis XV. Widely recognized as one of the greatest French writers, and even hyperbolically referred to by ...

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