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Lent: First Week, Tuesday – Regret
Kanapaha Arboretum Regret is a short, evocative, and achingly beautiful word; an elegy to lost possibilities even in its brief annunciation. It is also a rarity and almost never heard except where the...
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Lent: First Week, Wednesday – Like you
Like you I love love, life, the sweet smell of things, the sky- blue landscape of January days. And my blood boils up and I laugh through eyes that have known the buds of tears. I believe the world is...
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Lent: First Week, Thursday – Post-traumatic growth syndrome
With crises, some people dig deeper into their entrenched identities and hide in the pup tent of their old beliefs. Many people simply numb themselves with television or self-medicate with alcohol and...
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Lent: First week, Friday – Life will break you
Kanapaha crabapple “Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is...
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Lent: Week Two, Sunday – God’s Grandeur
THE WORLD is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?...
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LENT: Week two, Monday – Shake off this sadness
winged seed pods - red maple Shake off this sadness, and recover your spirit; sluggish you will never see the wheel of fate that brushes your heel as it turns going by, the man who wants to live is...
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HOUSE NEWS: Welcome back! Lenten practices and the passing of a GCW friend
Click here to see an entire list of what is happening this week at the Gainesville Catholic Worker. WELCOME BACK: We hope that many of you were able to enjoy Spring Break last week and we look forward...
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SCRIPTURE STUDY: Luke 4:1-13, Temptations to power
We began our Lenten Scripture study last Wednesday with the gospel reading for yesterday, the First Sunday of Lent: Luke 4:1-13, the temptation narrative. We started by first noting the context of the...
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LENT: Awe
One dictionary definition of the word awe is “wonder, but with more reverence.” If you have an hour or so this week, please consider watching this interview with Greg Boyle. Boyle is a Jesuit priest,...
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