Blog Posts for "Water"
An Odd Distance, a Common Problem
Bro John Celichowski OFM Cap
May 10, 2017
Easter Weekday
I’ve now been running for 40 years. What started as “plan B” to earn a high school letter after my basketball ambitions exceeded my talent and height has become a rewarding avocation. Over that time I’ve covered tens of thousands of miles on six continents. In the early years—high school, college and perhaps a decade after that, I competed and trained hard. These days (especially after aortic valve replacement surgery about 18 months ago) I feel blessed just being able to get out there in the morning, put...
May 10, 2017
A Natural and Supernatural Resource
Bro John Celichowski OFM Cap
March 28, 2017
Lenten Weekday
Ezekiel 47:1-9, 12; John 5:1-16
Both readings for Mass today speak of water that heals naturally and supernaturally. The superabundance of water that flows from the temple in Ezekiel’s vision not only sustains the lives of God’s plants and creatures, it even makes the salt sea fresh. The healing reputation of the waters at Bethesda draw a sick man there, yet it is his encounter with a man in the crowd, Jesus, that leads to his being able to walk.
At the entrance of our chapel at St. Clare Friary is...
March 28, 2017
Water is Thicker Than Blood
January 26, 2016
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