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Jesus and a Man Born Blind

March 21, 2020 By Rick Ganz

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 … Read More » about Jesus and a Man Born Blind

Filed Under: Lent, Meditations Tagged With: Lent

Jesus and the Woman of Samaria

March 14, 2020 By Rick Ganz

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 … Read More » about Jesus and the Woman of Samaria

Filed Under: Lent, Meditations Tagged With: Lent

The Transfiguration of the God-Man

March 7, 2020 By Rick Ganz

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] … Read More » about The Transfiguration of the God-Man

Filed Under: Lent, Meditations

The Temptation of the Christ

February 29, 2020 By Rick Ganz

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 … Read More » about The Temptation of the Christ

Filed Under: Lent, Meditations Tagged With: Lent, temptation

“Vere Latitat”

February 19, 2020 By Rick Ganz

Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528)[2] – Jesus among the Doctors (1506) regarding Luke 2:41-52, but especially at: 46 After three days they found him in … Read More » about “Vere Latitat”

Filed Under: Dear Peregrinus Tagged With: Peregrinus

Emergence

January 14, 2020 By Rick Ganz

It is the fact that never in all history before this had any Jew submitted to being baptized. The Jews knew and used baptism, but only for proselytes … Read More » about Emergence

Filed Under: Dear Peregrinus Tagged With: Peregrinus

Of Storms, Inner and Outer

December 5, 2019 By Rick Ganz

Dear Peregrinus (First Week of Advent)[1]: Thank you for your call on Thanksgiving day, and now happy Advent. Your words always fly, like a dart in … Read More » about Of Storms, Inner and Outer

Filed Under: Dear Peregrinus

What He Learned, and from Whom

November 6, 2019 By Rick Ganz

Dear Peregrinus (31st Sunday in Ordinary Time), Happy November to you. I wish you peace and insight on this Sunday, when at Mass the Readings we … Read More » about What He Learned, and from Whom

Filed Under: Dear Peregrinus

The Name Above All Names, and the Nameless One

October 9, 2019 By Rick Ganz

Dear Peregrinus (Monday PM, the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary): I am writing to you from inside a wondrous autumn afternoon, which the Pacific … Read More » about The Name Above All Names, and the Nameless One

Filed Under: Dear Peregrinus Tagged With: Peregrinus

At The “In-between”

September 11, 2019 By Rick Ganz

Genesis 28: 16 When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he said, “Truly, the Lord is in this place and I did not know it!” 17 He was … Read More » about At The “In-between”

Filed Under: Dear Peregrinus

I Would Give Anything

August 14, 2019 By Mary Edmonds

Dear Peregrinus, It is Mary Edmonds who writes to you today.  It has been a whole year since our last correspondence. Our dear friend Fr. Ganz … Read More » about I Would Give Anything

Filed Under: Dear Peregrinus Tagged With: Peregrinus, suffering

On Suffering

July 15, 2019 By Tara Ludwig

Dear Peregrinus (Monday, 7:30 PM): It is Tara Ludwig who writes to you today, Peregrinus, she of the Faber Institute, long-standing student and … Read More » about On Suffering

Filed Under: Dear Peregrinus Tagged With: Peregrinus, suffering

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