Mark Saucier
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As the first Advent candle flickered, the reality suddenly dawned on me: it’s December!
It’s not like I didn’t know it was coming. I had filled my calendar with December dates …
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By Mark Saucier
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12/5/24
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It’s the month of saints and sinners.
In church, we have a large scroll with the names of the parishioners who died in the past year. Saints and sinners all.
Looking at the list, I …
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By Mark Saucier
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11/20/24
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Coincidence or providence?
In the gospel reading on the Sunday before Election Day, Jesus is asked about the greatest commandment.
“You shall love the Lord your God with all …
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By Mark Saucier
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11/7/24
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I heard the disruption of the quiet fall afternoon from inside the house. It sounded as if everything was enveloped in a cloud of incessant clicks and whistles.
Stepping outside, I found the …
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By Mark Saucier
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10/23/24
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We gathered on the shores of Lake Norman.
We were physicists, lawyers, engineers, business owners, and assorted others like me.
What we all had in common was time.
Long before we were …
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By Mark Saucier
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10/9/24
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“Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.”
That’s in Chapter 8 of Mark. In the very next chapter, those faithful followers were …
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By Mark Saucier
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9/26/24
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Another sign of aging is when the “oldies” station plays a song that was a hit in your mid-40s.
The Spice Girls were singing “Tell me what you want, what you really, really …
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By Mark Saucier
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9/12/24
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In Luke, Gabriel appears to Mary and announces that she will give birth to one who will be called “Son of God.”
Flummoxed by the news, she probably didn’t recall that …
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By Mark Saucier
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8/29/24
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It was one of those early August days — hot and dry, plants drooping under their thermal load, and the ground thirsting for the rain that wouldn’t come.
I was out front, watering …
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By Mark Saucier
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8/16/24
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“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” Shakespeare’s sonnet asks.
“It all depends,” I insist.
Does he mean a summer day of kids’ play, beach …
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By Mark Saucier
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8/2/24
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“There is your brother, naked and crying. And you stand confused over the choice of an attractive floor covering.”
It sounds like the guilt-riding rant of an activist. In fact, the …
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By Mark Saucier
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7/22/24
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A quick recap.
Jesus crossed the Sea of Galilee to Capernaum, where he was met by Jairus. This synagogue leader begged Jesus to cure his dying daughter.
In the pressing crowd, a woman …
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By Mark Saucier
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7/6/24
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I wish I knew her better.
She was a peripheral friend — a fellow parishioner, someone I’d always say hello to, but never really got beyond the surface.
Perhaps if I had known …
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By Mark Saucier
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6/21/24
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“How you travel is where you arrive.”
I found that little aphorism in some of my notes. There was no clue where it came from. Google didn’t even know.
I thought it was …
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By Mark Saucier
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6/10/24
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At first, I thought that it was someone out for a walk, but the hill was long and the rise steep, so unless they were in training, they could have picked an easier route.
As I drove closer, I …
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By Mark Saucier
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5/22/24
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Ann Reeves Jarvis was just another woman in the mountains of West Virginia in the 1800s.
She was a mother, homemaker and Sunday school teacher.
She was also an activist, organizing …
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By Mark Saucier
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5/9/24
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I went for a walk the other day along a portion of the green belt near our house.
It’s a peaceful path, meandering past a football field, a children’s park, tennis courts and open …
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By Mark Saucier
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4/24/24
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I was making a pinhole projector so our granddaughter could experience her first solar eclipse like her grandparents did back when both the sun and the moon were much younger.
While racing …
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By Mark Saucier
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4/11/24
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Frank Silecchia was a New York native and an excavation laborer — a pick-and-shovel guy.
When his city begged for search-and-rescue volunteers after the 9/11 attack, he stepped up.
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By Mark Saucier
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3/28/24
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“Familiarity breeds contempt.”
That old Roman proverb, echoed in Augustine and Chaucer, stills rings true today.
One exception, though, may be Scripture.
Here, our …
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By Mark Saucier
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3/14/24
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