Author: Katharine E. Harmon
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What My Dreams are Telling Me about Covid-19
I, or at least my subconscious, is mightily struggling across this desert-sea of worship-less existence.
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Saying “No” to the Spirit
What have you had to say no to? Most recently, I had to say no to my ministry of church music.
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Work and Prayer in Time of Pandemic
I’ve gotten some “work” done. But my prayer life is a wreck.
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The Paschal Triduum that (almost) Wasn’t
My daughter’s fearlessness in the face of mud puddles gives us a new slant on the font, and those brave catechumens who (will eventually) plunge into those murky baptismal waters.
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I’m not trying to Google “Extraordinary Form of the Mass”
Where is the Ordinary Form of the Mass on social media? On Google? Anywhere, out there, on the vast and billowing waves of the world wide web?
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Christ is Coming and He Looks like the Abominable Snowman!
Neither the Incarnation nor the end times involve the bright and shiny Savior we expect.
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Can we give up Christmas this Advent?
The strife is o’er and the battle won…won by the dying mall—the elf on the shelf—and the peppermint mocha-flavored beverage I’m enjoying as I’m writing this.
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The Bright Side of a Glass Half Empty
I’m terrible at being a “the glass is half full!” kind of person. When I contemplate the world around me (or contemplate myself) my eyes are captured by the bright glare of emptiness—the void, the lack, the absence. I look at my long list of projects and only see the items I haven’t crossed off…
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The “Restored Order” for Initiation: Is it a “Progressive” or a “Traditionalist” victory?
I had the pleasure of visiting with a former student recently, who has worked within the Diocese of Springfield, Illinois after her graduation. As she and I tend to talk about things Church-related, she reported that her Diocese had just switched the “Restored Order,” and that she wondered how this would affect programming for the…