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Another Last Mass

Posted on November 11, 2017 by Kathy

I chose a chair in the back row. When Mildred and Elaine arrived and sat nearby, they told me, “We’re from the neighborhood.” That was significant, because most of the people gathered in Father Jim and Sister Maggie’s spartan living … Continue reading →

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Scattered Seed

Posted on October 2, 2017 by Kathy

I’m trying to write about the experience we called Scattered Seed, after the diocese closed our parishes St. Cecilia and Epiphany, along with so many others. This prelude to our last Mass, on August 7, 2016, is sustaining. It’s all … Continue reading →

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Because He Lives

Posted on August 20, 2017 by Kathy

I have some tapes from Masses at St. Cecilia’s, my old church. Tonight I felt like hearing a random sermon from Father Dan. I guess you can’t say picking out an Easter Mass qualifies as random, exactly, but let’s say the … Continue reading →

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This Bears Repeating

Posted on August 16, 2017 by Kathy

Donald Trump’s election – and Hillary Clinton’s defeat – was about gender, race and decades of sexist, anti-Hillary hate: Kathy Ewing (Opinion) 78 Posted on November 16, 2016 at 5:25 AM Hillary speaks at the Hillary Clinton and LeBron James … Continue reading →

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Father Dan’s Funeral Sermon

Posted on August 6, 2017 by Kathy

When I mention that Father Dan wrote the sermon for his own funeral Mass, people are sometimes taken aback–people, that is, who didn’t know him. “Wouldn’t somebody else have liked to say something?” one of them asked me, implying that … Continue reading →

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The Power of the Spirit

Posted on May 21, 2017 by Kathy

        That power of the Spirit is what transforms our goals from the things that are here today and gone tomorrow to the things that last forever.   Father Dan delivered this homily in May, 2009. The … Continue reading →

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Review

Posted on April 17, 2017 by Kathy

Thanks to Ethan Boatner for this very nice review of Missing in Lavender, a Twin Cities publication addressing LGBTQ issues.   Missing: Coming to Terms with a Borderline Mother Kathy Ewing Red Giant Books $14.95 If you didn’t grow up with a Borderline … Continue reading →

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Welcoming the Stranger

Posted on April 9, 2017 by Kathy

One of the most noteworthy things about Father Dan Begin was that his words and his actions were almost perfectly in sync. This quality made his sermons especially powerful; if you knew him, you could hear his advice and immediately … Continue reading →

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A Perfect Day for Bananafish

Posted on March 8, 2017 by Kathy

Culling an old folder just now, I ran across a copy of Time magazine dated July 10, 1939. On page six, there’s a letter written by my father, Martin R. Miller, dateline Fairport Harbor, where he lived before marrying my mom … Continue reading →

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Exuberance Is Beauty

Posted on March 1, 2017 by Kathy

Father Dan Begin and I never talked about William Blake, the English Romantic poet, which may sound pretentious, but we were two old English majors who enjoyed hauling out our tattered copies of the Norton Anthology of English Literature on … Continue reading →

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