We're best in tragedy.
We are.
Really.
All of the heartache and horror of hurricane Sandy's plunge through the northeast has me grateful for the unity suffering brings.
Leaders are no longer fighting.
Americans are there to help those hurting.
My tears merge with the waters deluging fellow sisters and brothers.
And, I say a prayer for them.
People are getting the job of restoration done amid their own emotions that rock them, I'm sure.
We do what we have to do.
Resilient, rebounding and recovering from fear, fire, floods, and more these day.
Faith calls us to be together.
There for each other.
I'm grateful.
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Fitness and Faith
Prayfit is author Jimmy Pena's 28-day plan for wellness of mind, body and spirit.
Faith and fitness are two areas that create one's well-being, according to the exercise guru who has morphed millions into better beings.
Pena has a guidebook, Prayfit, the companion to the serious participant. It includes menus and exercises to steer that best look one is seeking.
One wonders what works given the plethora of books and ideas out there about wellness.
Tyler Perry, among others, have taken the plunge and commit to this plan.
I'll try it. And, I'll be back about it!
Faith and fitness are two areas that create one's well-being, according to the exercise guru who has morphed millions into better beings.
Pena has a guidebook, Prayfit, the companion to the serious participant. It includes menus and exercises to steer that best look one is seeking.
One wonders what works given the plethora of books and ideas out there about wellness.
Tyler Perry, among others, have taken the plunge and commit to this plan.
I'll try it. And, I'll be back about it!
Saturday, October 27, 2012
Holy Matrimony
Raymond and Renia Malinowski are celebrating thier thirty-fifth wedding anniversary November 10th in the Polonia Hall on Yemans in Hamtramck, Michigan.
"We just decided to have a party after being together for thirty-five years through ups and downs," said the couple who met in Poland decades ago through the groom's Uncle Bob of Marshall, Michigan.
A marriage planted in Poland, the couple have two children, Jennifer and Matt.
Ray grew up on Detroit east side near Lynch Road and Van Dyke before going off to Castle Heights Military Academy.
They belong to St. Collette Church near their home in Livonia, MI., although they frequent numerous Polish parishes and organizations in the metropolitan Detroit area.
"We just decided to have a party after being together for thirty-five years through ups and downs," said the couple who met in Poland decades ago through the groom's Uncle Bob of Marshall, Michigan.
A marriage planted in Poland, the couple have two children, Jennifer and Matt.
Ray grew up on Detroit east side near Lynch Road and Van Dyke before going off to Castle Heights Military Academy.
They belong to St. Collette Church near their home in Livonia, MI., although they frequent numerous Polish parishes and organizations in the metropolitan Detroit area.
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Sacrament of the Sick
Those struggling to walk will come.
The elderly will amble into the church.
All kinds of sick people will be touched with the healing sacrament of the sick tonight in Warren, Michigan.
With Our Lady of Perpetual Help pastor, Father Fadi Hadid, Mass will be celebrated with the Chaldean community who have invited parishioners of St. Sylvester to join them.
A powerful sacrament for the believer, the anointing of the sick, is a major manifestation of God's loving and healing presence to people of faith.
At 6:30 pm this Ocotber 25th at the church at 11200 Twelve Mile Road in Warren, people will sing, praise, and be healed in an ancient sacrament of laying on of hands and anointing with healing balm of oil.
Some will expect a miracle.
And, they will leave with it tonight.
The elderly will amble into the church.
All kinds of sick people will be touched with the healing sacrament of the sick tonight in Warren, Michigan.
With Our Lady of Perpetual Help pastor, Father Fadi Hadid, Mass will be celebrated with the Chaldean community who have invited parishioners of St. Sylvester to join them.
A powerful sacrament for the believer, the anointing of the sick, is a major manifestation of God's loving and healing presence to people of faith.
At 6:30 pm this Ocotber 25th at the church at 11200 Twelve Mile Road in Warren, people will sing, praise, and be healed in an ancient sacrament of laying on of hands and anointing with healing balm of oil.
Some will expect a miracle.
And, they will leave with it tonight.
Monday, October 22, 2012
First Native American Saint Kateri Tekawitha
As the sun rose Sunday there were Native Americans in beaded and color-feathered headdresses and leather-fringed tunics singing songs with the beat of drums.
The "Lily of the Mohawks," Kateri Tekawitha was born in 1956 to a pagan Iroquois father and an Algonquin mother who was Christian. Kateri died in Canada at 24.
80,000 pilgrims in flowered lei and traditional garb gathered in Saint Peter's Square to celebrate seven more saints, including two Americans.
Both Americans come from upstate New York and lived centuries apart.
Mother Marianne Cope arrived in Hawaii in 1883 to care for leprosy patients on Kalaupapa on Molokai Island.
The "Lily of the Mohawks," Kateri Tekawitha was born in 1956 to a pagan Iroquois father and an Algonquin mother who was Christian. Kateri died in Canada at 24.
80,000 pilgrims in flowered lei and traditional garb gathered in Saint Peter's Square to celebrate seven more saints, including two Americans.
Both Americans come from upstate New York and lived centuries apart.
Mother Marianne Cope arrived in Hawaii in 1883 to care for leprosy patients on Kalaupapa on Molokai Island.
Friday, October 19, 2012
Go Tigers!
Everyone wants a winner!
And, Detroit has one in its Detroit Tiger baseball team who just swept the American league title.
Ray Malinowski, a boyhood friend, invited me to the title-winning game against New York Thursday night. His daughter, Jenniffer, and, boyfirend, Joey, couldn't use the tickets Thursday after the rain apparently called the game near 10 pm Wednesday.
42,000 fans packed the place last night.
Everybody was happy, it seemed.
They clapped, stood, and applauded often.
Homeruns by the homtown team assured a sweep of the Yanks.
Detroit needs winners.
As we all get into the spirit of champions we can be champions right where we are at any given moment, for sure.
One more hurdle to take the title.
We can do this.
Champions are like that!
And, Detroit has one in its Detroit Tiger baseball team who just swept the American league title.
Ray Malinowski, a boyhood friend, invited me to the title-winning game against New York Thursday night. His daughter, Jenniffer, and, boyfirend, Joey, couldn't use the tickets Thursday after the rain apparently called the game near 10 pm Wednesday.
42,000 fans packed the place last night.
Everybody was happy, it seemed.
They clapped, stood, and applauded often.
Homeruns by the homtown team assured a sweep of the Yanks.
Detroit needs winners.
As we all get into the spirit of champions we can be champions right where we are at any given moment, for sure.
One more hurdle to take the title.
We can do this.
Champions are like that!
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Patrick Cooney
Patrick Cooney always smiled easily.
And, he readily laughed.
Humble.
He listened long and well hearing the one before him.
A priest for many years, then a bishop in Detroit and Gaylord, Michigan,
he died Monday after a long illness.
When churches in the City were on the chopping block I recall serving on a large committee with him to determine their fate.
That was no easy task.
Years later, and, away from that task, he said, "We won some and lost some."
An attitude of hope heralded for Patrick.
I always appreciated his company, and, willingness to sit and talk here in Detroit or at a visit with him in Gaylord.
Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him.
And, he readily laughed.
Humble.
He listened long and well hearing the one before him.
A priest for many years, then a bishop in Detroit and Gaylord, Michigan,
he died Monday after a long illness.
When churches in the City were on the chopping block I recall serving on a large committee with him to determine their fate.
That was no easy task.
Years later, and, away from that task, he said, "We won some and lost some."
An attitude of hope heralded for Patrick.
I always appreciated his company, and, willingness to sit and talk here in Detroit or at a visit with him in Gaylord.
Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him.
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