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I’ve always loved the opening scene of Fiddler on the Roof, when Tevye explains the importance of tradition: “You may ask, ‘How did this tradition get started?’ I’ll tell you! I don’t know. But it’s a tradition. And because of our traditions, every one of us knows who he is and what God expects him to do.” I especially love that last line in which he explains that tradition helps us to know who we are […]

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I received an e-mail from a co-worker announcing that another co-worker had given birth to a healthy beautiful baby boy. The subject line of the message was, “Show me a day when the world wasn’t new.” This caught my attention. The quote is attributed to Sr. Barbara Hance (1928–1993), and I think it’s a wonderful Advent thought. In fact, this quote and the e-mail about the newborn baby made me think of my pastor’s homily this […]

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Last evening was our scheduled monthly Mass in church which was moved from 6:15 to 6:45 PM to give us one solid block of teaching before Mass (6:00 – 6:40) rather than a brief one before Mass (6:00 – 6:10) and another short segment after Mass (7:10 – 7:30). This worked out very well because Mass still went about an hour but didn’t take away from class time! I don’t think parents minded that the […]

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