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Fr Robert Randall McDonald Bagwell
Nov 30, 20226 min read
Attention: It's Advent!
Human beings are people of waiting. We wait 9 months to be born typically; we wait for the weekend, our birthdays, the day to be over, an...
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Fr Robert Randall McDonald Bagwell
Nov 3, 20222 min read
All Saints-tide
All Saints-tide Now as we again approach the end of the Church Kalendar year it is also the time to reconsider the Church Year.Soon will...
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Fr Robert Randall McDonald Bagwell
Oct 6, 20222 min read
The Day is Now Coming and Now is:
We read in the gospel of John: “Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and...
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Fr Robert Randall McDonald Bagwell
Jun 5, 20222 min read
When the Fire Fell
Today is Pentecost! It is 50 days since Easter. It is the Jewish Feast of Weeks (or Shavu´ot) seven weeks of seven days since...
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Fr Robert Randall McDonald Bagwell
May 22, 20222 min read
Resurrection + Transcending Death
The Orthodox have a hymn they sing as the Pasch – the Great Vigil of Easter. It is called the Troparion and roughly in all of its...
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Fr Robert Randall McDonald Bagwell
Apr 15, 20227 min read
"Tetelesti" It is Finished
Good Friday + Year C Fr. Robert R.M. Bagwell+ 15, April 2022 Isaiah 52:13-53:12 ...
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Fr Robert Randall McDonald Bagwell
Apr 12, 20222 min read
Via Dolorosa
This week the Church in the West has the solemn privilege to commemorate the events that won our salvation. As we have been shocked by...
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Fire of God Musings Fr B+
Apr 5, 20221 min read
"Mea Culpa"
How appropriate that after trying for months to get back into this website editor, only to discover human error---and I'm the error! Mea...
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Fr Robert Randall McDonald Bagwell
Sep 17, 20212 min read
Rebirth of Hope in Dying Secular Hopelessness
September 2021 + After the Co-Vid death (like the Black Death in the Middle Ages) we have come face to face with stark reality--life is...
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Fr Robert Randall McDonald Bagwell
Mar 1, 20202 min read
Offended? A national plague...
Everyone is offended! Have you noticed? Are you offended? Are you constantly taking offense at people? At media? At your employer or...
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Fr Robert Randall McDonald Bagwell
Jan 12, 20203 min read
Right in your face - God
The Epiphany comes the thirteenth day after Christmass when the Western Church celebrates the arrival of the three wise men. Scripture...
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Fr Robert Randall McDonald Bagwell
Dec 14, 20193 min read
Maranatha! He is coming!
Maranatha! Perhaps you have heard that word or seen it on the marquee of a church. It is a word that means “coming”. From the earliest...
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Fr Robert Randall McDonald Bagwell
Dec 9, 20194 min read
A Pilgrim: Pursuing the Truth Giving Thanks in a World of Ingratitude
We now celebrate again a National Holiday (Christians read that as Holy Day) called “Thanksgiving”. This was in the context of a group...
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Fr Robert Randall McDonald Bagwell
Aug 30, 20192 min read
Spoiler Alert!
Have you ever longed for a community of those who believe in God and name Jesus as God’s Messiah, who all know that they are not nor ever...
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Fr Robert Randall McDonald Bagwell
Jun 8, 20193 min read
Fire!
Fire!In the Year of Grace 1654, Monday, the 23rd of November Feast of St. Clement, Pope and Martyr, and others in the Martyrology. Vigil...
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Fr Robert Randall McDonald Bagwell
May 8, 20192 min read
The Lord is Risen Indeed! Alleluia!
Alleluia! Christ is Risen! The Lord is Risen Indeed! Alleluia!
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Fr Robert Randall McDonald Bagwell
Mar 6, 20193 min read
Lent: Such a dreary word...or is it?
Lent: what is it? Liturgical Christians, especially those from the Western catholic tradition, have no doubt experienced the Church...
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Fr Robert Randall McDonald Bagwell
Feb 15, 20197 min read
The Greatest of these...is Love
Love: a word often used in trivial ways. “I love sweets!” “I love that movie!” “I love football!” But is that love? Isn’t that really...
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Fr Robert Randall McDonald Bagwell
Jan 22, 20192 min read
Unity without Uniformity:
I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power...
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Fr Robert Randall McDonald Bagwell
Dec 31, 20182 min read
Christmass through Epiphany AD 2019 + On a Mission for God
“You must be born-again” said Jesus to the learned Nicodemus in John chapter 3. Everyone who has faith in Jesus Christ for salvation and...
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