Angelo (Margaret) Haspert, OSB
Angelo (Margaret) Haspert, OSB Saint Benedict’s Monastery St. Joseph, Minn. November 10, 1924 – January 29, 2023 The Eucharist of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, […]
Entries by Amanda Hackett
Dragonflies
Staging for Scenes: Water bugs become dragonflies, so says the story intended to console the children when their five-year-old friend died. In the tale, a water bug could not keep […]
The Lonely Christmas Tree
Today is January 7, and the Christmas tree is lonely. Where did everybody go? No more gifts under the branches makes it lonely. Are the baubles still on the branches? […]
Commitment
I’m writing this blog on December 30, 2022, very close to the end of the year. Recently, I’ve been writing things to do with the coming of the New Year […]
TIME’s 2022 Person of the Year
In early December, TIME Magazine chose Volodymyr Zelensky as the Person of the Year because he has had the greatest influence in 2022. How right and just! Thank you, TIME […]
December
December is one month I begin on tiptoe. As an oblate, I’ve often thought there might be something I could learn here. December is the month I birthed two children—one […]
Happy Name Day to You!
Blessings and prayers can be yours if you believe in the custom of patron saints. Because my patron saint is John, the Apostle and Evangelist, whose feast is today (December […]
Mr. Blue
I just finished re-reading a book reprinted 16 times by The Macmillan Company and 18 more times by Doubleday’s Image Books. I bought it decades ago: the 1954 edition by […]
Atchison Blue – A Different Kind of Christmas
Change is inevitable. While I can adjust most of the time, there is one change I’ve not entirely been able to handle till now. Back in 1959, as a postulant, […]
They Say
Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack, a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in. – Leonard Cohen They say […]
