Category Archives: Healthy Living

Scrooge & Our Lives

Posted on April 19, 2015 by Rev. Joe Jagodensky, SDS.

It was another lonely meal beside the fireplace as he’s done night after night after a twelve hour day of balancing the books in unbalancing ways.  Crackling sounds growing louder pauses his meal as his dead partner visits with a … Continue reading →

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“He’s Holding Up A Mirror”

Posted on December 11, 2014 by Rev. Joe Jagodensky, SDS.

Why can’t everyone be like me?  Wouldn’t it be a better and more enriching world if all those folks I know acted like me?  We’d see eye-t0-eye easier, laugh a lot more and even sleep late on nothing Saturday mornings. … Continue reading →

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“Stop It!”

Posted on December 8, 2014 by Rev. Joe Jagodensky, SDS.

“Stop it,” I keep saying to myself as the years pile on and retirement is no longer another person’s fate. “I want to be 18 again” with all the silly questions and worries that preoccupied me.  All my hesitations and … Continue reading →

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“Why?”

Posted on February 11, 2014 by Rev. Joe Jagodensky, SDS.

It’s the perfect question to answer with no further questions needed.  It is the one that needs no defense nor can it be argued or dismissed. Full proof or fool proof?  It is totally of our own making which makes … Continue reading →

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Milwaukee’s “Friday Fish Fry”

Posted on February 8, 2014 by Rev. Joe Jagodensky, SDS.

Around 4:15 p.m. on a Friday afternoon the commotion begins.  All the grade school children have already assembled wearing their bright T-Shirts that announce the evening’s event.  The cooking (or more correctly frying) began hours earlier as these oldsters leave … Continue reading →

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Friday Night and All Alone

Posted on February 8, 2014 by Rev. Joe Jagodensky, SDS.

The worst night of week.  After a week’s worth of work I deserve a night off and out.  Didn’t happen.  Many Friday nights, I was convinced that everyone in the world was having more fun that I presently was having. … Continue reading →

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Who Are Those People In The Pews?

Posted on February 8, 2014 by Rev. Joe Jagodensky, SDS.

Who comprises this varied group of people that the Catholic Church calls the “laity.”  I’ve never cared for that name because it sounds so ordinary, “the laity.”  “The laity” believes that… We hear so often in sound bites that, “the … Continue reading →

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Carry On

Posted on February 8, 2014 by Rev. Joe Jagodensky, SDS.

I learned that the Biblical verb “I believe” means “to let someone be carried along by another.”   (Sounds like entitlement to me…)  As usual, the Bible speaks anti-American truths. (So much for “One nation, under God.”) The connotation of “carrying … Continue reading →

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Life’s Three Gifts

Posted on February 8, 2014 by Rev. Joe Jagodensky, SDS.

We would all agree that life is complicated; sometimes self-imposed, other times from other people.  Much of life’s complication is our lack of preserving the three most important elements in our lives.  We need to be reminded of them, to … Continue reading →

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The “Golden Years”

Posted on February 8, 2014 by Rev. Joe Jagodensky, SDS.

Just because you’ve consumed oxygen for ninety years does not make you a sage or mentor.  It can mean that you’ve taken up space and have lived a long life. Human years are measured in a chronological fashion, one after … Continue reading →

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