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Serving in Sioux City: four new deacons ordained
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Deacon Greg Kandra
News from Iowa: a new crop of deacons has sprouted! From the Catholic Globe: During the ordination Mass to the permanent diaconate Oct. 4 at the Cathedral of the Epiphany in Sioux City, four men were called forward. Byron Gene Stone. Gary Leo Schon. William Anthony Black. David Norton Brown. As their names were called,…
We’re Catholic, and we aren’t s’posed to use condiments
By
Deacon Greg Kandra
Ahem. But I have to admit, this doesn’t much surprise me… You Are Ketchup You are easy going and very measured in your approach to life. Popular and well liked, you get along with everyone. Seriously, everyone loves you! Your taste tends to be pretty mainstream American. You go for the classic favorites: burgers, fries,…
106-year-old nun endorses Obama
By
Deacon Greg Kandra
It turns out one of the oldest Americans who will be voting this November is a nun. She’ll be exercising her own Faithful Citizenship — but not in a way that some bishops might like. From Reuters: A 106-year-old American nun who became a minor celebrity after she appeared on television saying she is voting…
A prayer at the start of a new job
By
Deacon Greg Kandra
At Thomas Merton’s hermitage, 2004 Words from the master, with a grateful h/t to Doug Souza: Take my life into Your hands, at last, and do whatever You want with it. I give myself to Your love and mean to keep on giving myself to Your love — rejecting neither the hard things nor the…
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