Author Archives: Rev. Joe Jagodensky, SDS.

How can any of us aspire, pray, and work toward perfection while remaining, always and anywhere, imperfect? It’s a perfectly solid question with a perfectly perfect, imperfect answer. Let’s take the precision of perfection first. Music is the epitome of … Continue reading →

The website for my car has the top banner words “navigate, connect, and discover.” I would add a fourth word, but that’s at the end of my little ditty. Truer words could not describe not only that thing in my … Continue reading →

Looking out my kitchen window, I see her … resting on a telephone wire. It’s been a long time watching her, for a bird, and she’s still there … probably absorbing and observing all that moves and lives and moves … Continue reading →

A Salvatorian priest attends an important meeting in Washington, D.C. He drives from Milwaukee, attends the meetings, and arrives back home. Upon his return, he’s asked, “Where’s the car?” He flew back. True story. That’s what Lent is all about. … Continue reading →

View – SeeHear – ListenTouch – GraspTravel – WalkTravel – JourneyTaste – SavorSip – SwallowGrin – SmileVenial or Mortal Sin? – Judge YourselfDistractions – Focus24/7 News – DiscernmentNap – Never a ChairShrinking – GrowingFoggy Secular Thoughts – GoodQuick Meal – … Continue reading →

A Catholic hymn sings, “We return in love what love has made.” Very easy funeral sermon to preach. If there is such a thing, a “Happy Death” is attributed to St. Joseph’s demise. Why? Because he had the Blessed Mother … Continue reading →

We say, “I will,” to some upcoming fun event. We say, “I could,” to something doubtful. We also say, “I won’t,” about a transition or change. This is an English lesson, folks, so you may wish to take notes. We … Continue reading →

You wake up to a beautiful sunlit day and say to yourself, “It’s great to be alive.” You see no stars in the sky. Perhaps, a half-moon is seen in the distance, if you look enough. There is only her … Continue reading →

He and I have little in common. So how do the two of us get along? Full of concerning emotions, lots of laughter and life’s appreciations. Lunch happens now on a regular basis. He and I have little in common, … Continue reading →

Between Christmas and New Year’s, a gathering of ten people gathered to spend time with and to be with a good friend who’s dying. He’s lucid, alert, and, as always, ever engaging, but now all contained in a weakening body. … Continue reading →