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The Deacon's Bench
“Grace finds beauty in everything”
By
Deacon Greg Kandra
This beautiful video sums up Mother Teresa better than anything else I’ve seen, and does it with just one word: grace. Music by U2.
The world remembers the saint of the gutters
By
deacon greg kandra
I can still remember the shock from 10 years ago: just days after the death of another world icon, Princess Diana, the world lost a living saint. Mother Teresa, of course, is back in the news again, with the publication of her letters, “Come Be My Light,” and uncounted souls around the world are commemorating…
Bless this house, oh Lord, we pray
By
deacon greg kandra
“Hey,” I said to the couple sitting across from me in the rectory office, “you guys live in the building next to mine.” They had arrived a few minutes earlier to schedule their newborn’s baptism, and I was going over their paperwork. “Really?,” the husband said. “Well, would you be able to bless our apartment?”…
Will she switch to decaf?
By
deacon greg kandra
I love coffee. I consider it to be my one vice (or, at least, the one I’ll admit to.) So it was with fascination and a little awe that I read this item about a coffee shop owner who is becoming a consecrated virgin: A 41-year-old coffee shop owner in Waukesha, Wisconsin, has decided to…
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