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The Advent Meditations – Week 4

December 17, 2022 By Rick Ganz 3 Comments

Dad A Thought I have searched the Gospels for evidence of the influence of his parents on his life: the way he handled himself, the way he responded to people and things, the way he set his … [Read more...] about The Advent Meditations – Week 4

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The Advent Meditations – Week 3

December 10, 2022 By Rick Ganz 1 Comment

Arise, My Friend, and Come A Thought Both John the Baptist and Jesus were especially allergic[1] to the presence of hypocrisy. We might then find it valuable for us to think about this in this … [Read more...] about The Advent Meditations – Week 3

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The Advent Meditations – Week 2

December 3, 2022 By Rick Ganz Leave a Comment

"Listen, and You Will Live" Matthew 11: 11 Amen, I [Jesus] say to you, among those born of women there has been none greater than John the Baptist.[2] Pope Francis, “A Homily on Holy … [Read more...] about The Advent Meditations – Week 2

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The Advent Meditations – Week 1

November 26, 2022 By Rick Ganz 1 Comment

"Imagination as the Healer" Marilynne Robinson (b. 1943) – “I have spent my life watching, not to see beyond the world, merely to see, great mystery, what is plainly before my eyes. I think the … [Read more...] about The Advent Meditations – Week 1

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Jesus Proceeds through Jerusalem

April 4, 2020 By Rick Ganz Leave a Comment

James Tissot (1836-1902)[1], The Procession in the Streets of Jerusalem (1886-1894) in the Brooklyn Museum Poem XXXII[2] - by Emily Dickinson[3]Hope[4] is the thing with feathers   That … [Read more...] about Jesus Proceeds through Jerusalem

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The Raising of Lazarus

March 28, 2020 By Rick Ganz Leave a Comment

Juan de Flandes (d. 1519)[1], The Raising of Lazarus (c. 1514-1519) in the Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain Poem  “Quietness”[2] by Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (1207-1273)[3] Inside this new … [Read more...] about The Raising of Lazarus

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Jesus and a Man Born Blind

March 21, 2020 By Rick Ganz Leave a Comment

Vassily Surikov (1848-1916)[1], Healing of the Man Born Blind by Jesus Christ (1888) in St. Petersburg, Russia at the Imperial Academy of Arts of the Russian Empire.[2] Poem “Listening”[3] by … [Read more...] about Jesus and a Man Born Blind

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Jesus and the Woman of Samaria

March 14, 2020 By Rick Ganz Leave a Comment

James Tissot (1836-1902)[1] – The Woman of Samaria at the Well (1886-1894) at the Brooklyn Museum The First Commandment of Fiction has mutated from “write what you know” to “stay in your lane.” … [Read more...] about Jesus and the Woman of Samaria

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The Transfiguration of the God-Man

March 7, 2020 By Rick Ganz Leave a Comment

Poem If you want what visible reality can give, you are an employee.[3] If you want the unseen world, you are not living with your truth.[4] Both wishes are foolish,[5] but you’ll be … [Read more...] about The Transfiguration of the God-Man

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The Temptation of the Christ

February 29, 2020 By Rick Ganz Leave a Comment

Poem Midway in the journey of our life I came to myself in a dark wood, for the straight way was lost. Ah, how hard it is to tell the nature of that wood, savage, dense and harsh - the very … [Read more...] about The Temptation of the Christ

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