text: February « 2019 « The Society of Franciscan Workers
  February 28th, 2019 By punkpriest
  Rights to the Jesus Franchise Lectionary Readings for Sunday, March 2, 2019: Sirach 27:4-7, I Corinthians 15: 54-58 and Luke 6:42: "How can you say to your brother or sister, 'Brother, Sister, let me take the splinter out of your eye,' when you don't see the log in your own eye? You deceive yourselves! First […]
  February 26th, 2019 By punkpriest
  Journal of An Alien Street Priest On Ash Wednesday we will walk along both Polk and Haight Streets carrying ashes for anointing for any one, but in particular those who live on the street. We will have their heads turned away, some will be express their anger at us, but the anger is not at […]
  February 25th, 2019 By punkpriest
  The Winter of Our Lives! Today I wrote in my private journal, something I would like to share: "The liturgy today speaks of the winter of our lives, 'when we too experience the winter of our lives may we find courage to let go and trust in your guiding, warming light." I feel like I […]
  Walking the Borderlands–Up the Mountain of Hope
  February 23rd, 2019 By punkpriest
  Living on the Borderlands–Up the Mountain of Hope-Feast of the Transfiguration Description of faith "11 Faith is the reality of what we hope for, the proof of what we don't see. 2 The elders in the past were approved because they showed faith. Acts of faith by God's people 3 By faith we understand that the universe has […]
  February 22nd, 2019 By punkpriest
  Putting Your Sword (Facebook, Twitter, Snap chat, You Tube) Away! I Sm 26:2, 7-9, 12-13, 22-23; I Corinthians 15:45-49; Luke 6:27-38 Luke 6:37-38 Common English Bible (CEB) 37 "Don't judge, and you won't be judged. Don't condemn, and you won't be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven. 38 Give, and it will be given to you. […]
  February 20th, 2019 By punkpriest
  The Art of Dying Well: A Practical Guide to the End of Life By Katy Butler Katy Butler presents a great book on preparing for our deaths early, and how we can die well. In our society many do not see death very often. One funeral director told me that more and more people simply […]
  The Unfolding and Uncertain Journey A blind man is healed "22 Jesus and his disciples came to Bethsaida. Some people brought a blind man to Jesus and begged him to touch and heal him. 23 Taking the blind man's hand, Jesus led him out of the village. After spitting on his eyes and laying his hands on […]
  February 17th, 2019 By punkpriest
  Wisdom Walking: Pilgrimage is A Way of Life Gil Stafford Fr. Stafford, an Episcopal Priest, writes of our lives as a pilgrimage. He uses walking long distances, particularly in Ireland, as a symbol of that pilgrimage. Walking for Stafford is a way in which to pilgrimage in his own life. Stafford sees our pilgrimage as […]
  The Disfiguration of Nature: What the Caring for the Environment is Inherently Conservative By James G. Krueger James Krueger presents the thesis that issues around environmental issues has been clouded by all the "ism's", and that people should come together leaving aside their view points for the common goal of the preservation of nature. For […]
  Turning Our Woes Around!
  February 16th, 2019 By punkpriest
  Turn the Woes Around! ""But woe to you who are rich, for you have received your consolation. But woe to you who are filled now, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will grieve and weep. Woe to you when all speak well of you, for their ancestors treated […]