Monthly Archives: March 2024

The day before “Holy Week”

Posted on March 25, 2024 by Rev. Joe Jagodensky, SDS.

We absorb watching the movie move from one moment to many moments. We press the pause button and notice there are 34:50 seconds left. We are intrigued and perhaps identified with some characters but are happy that the others are … Continue reading →

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Easter Sunday for Older Catholics

Posted on March 23, 2024 by Rev. Joe Jagodensky, SDS.

Easter’s joy may be cloudily looming by so many, many of our accumulating years. Young ears heard about eternal judgment, again and again, and inculcated during those so very important and formative growing years. All about the practices (whether doing … Continue reading →

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Why Catholic Sermons are so Bad

Posted on March 23, 2024 by Rev. Joe Jagodensky, SDS.

I begin the sermon, as I begin every sermon with, “In today’s Gospel.” I then proceed to illustrate how dumb you all are by repeating the Gospel you’ve just heard, sprinkled with long words you’ve never heard of, many not … Continue reading →

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Holy Week’s, “Light”

Posted on March 21, 2024 by Rev. Joe Jagodensky, SDS.

Holy Thursday, “Passing the Light” Please excuse my bluntness. I don’t know if it’s sad news or good news. The other Fr. Joe is shrinking. I know, it’s true. “Two inches” last year, he told me. It could be more … Continue reading →

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Funeral Sermon for Duane Schuler

Posted on March 21, 2024 by Rev. Joe Jagodensky, SDS.

We all would love to be anywhere else in the world then here today. Yet, there is no other place we would rather be then right here, right now. “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus … Continue reading →

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Pause

Posted on March 20, 2024 by Rev. Joe Jagodensky, SDS.

The group leader says, “We pause for a moment of prayer” when no one knows how long that pause will last. These days the uselessly used word in our crazy culture proudly declares us to be one of 24/7. TV … Continue reading →

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“The Green Thing,” Retrospect

Posted on March 18, 2024 by Rev. Joe Jagodensky, SDS.

Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the much older woman that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren’t good for the environment. The woman apologized and explained, “We didn’t have this ‘green … Continue reading →

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The Two’s Our Lives

Posted on March 15, 2024 by Rev. Joe Jagodensky, SDS.

Up/DownHere/ThereHe/SheAbove/AroundNoah’sRepublican/DemocratNow/ThenCagney/LaceyStarsky/HutchSimon/GarfunkelHeaven/HellCatholic/Non-CatholicBoy/GirlMan/WomanMarried/DivorcedCats/DogsBruce/Caitlyn JennerYesterday/TomorrowRight/WrongDay/NightEmployed/RetiredBlack/WhiteTime/UniverseCursive/PrintingRight/LeftFerrante/TeicherSandler/YoungChad/JeremyDon/PhilJan/DeanThis/ThatPriest/OthersStraight/GayAbsolute/RelativeLegal/IllHealthy/SicklyYoung/OldSmart/DumbBrother/SisterLiving/DeceasedGood/BadHair/BaldTrue/FalseBeliever/Non-believerSkinny/FatTruth/ConsequencesVanilla/ChocolateHandwritten/EmailHello/GoodbyeMortal/VenialSee/BlindRowan/MartinHear/DeafTongue/HandAction/CouchAngels/DemonsSin/GraceSonny/CherWar/PeaceContent/AnxietyCold/HotEngaged/BoredBorrowed/GoneBeginning/EndingApple/Google There appears to be no “middle ground,” “in-between” is forgotten, “sometimes” is dismissed, “perhaps” is no longer pondered, “what if” and “what about” are non-questions, “assumptions” are forbidden in a dualistic world, “doubts” are punishable, “wonderings and wanderings” … Continue reading →

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Life’s Sacramentals

Posted on March 9, 2024 by Rev. Joe Jagodensky, SDS.

Every week we gather around our parish altars. We place on the eucharistic table bread and wine as our offering to God, who consecrates them and returns them to us as the body and blood of his beloved Son. But … Continue reading →

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Funeral Sermon for Truck Driver with a Sense of Humor

Posted on March 7, 2024 by Rev. Joe Jagodensky, SDS.

(“I Know What God Is,” Perry Como, YouTube) A miserable-looking guy is sitting at a bar one evening, intently staring at his drink. He’s been like that for over an hour. Suddenly this big, trouble-making truck driver walks up to … Continue reading →

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