tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9993183400273184482024-03-28T21:59:05.535-07:00Aisling on EarthFr. Joe Hennessy's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15441275910084651288noreply@blogger.comBlogger512125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-999318340027318448.post-1220997892118627102024-03-28T21:58:00.000-07:002024-03-28T21:58:14.370-07:00 The Tridium, 2024. Holy Thursday.I know from my inhabitation of the human condition ,education, and formation are essential for a healthy journey. A journey that can only be taken one step at a time, lived, experienced one Fr. Joe Hennessy's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15441275910084651288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-999318340027318448.post-32339019263620343782024-03-25T20:47:00.000-07:002024-03-25T20:47:26.722-07:00 Palm Sunday--- Holy Week 2024. " For five weeks of Lent we have been preparing, by works of charity, love, for the celebration of Our Lord's Paschal Mystery. Christ Jesus entered in triumph into His own city---to suffer , to die, and to rise again. Let us remember with devotion this entry-- and Fr. Joe Hennessy's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15441275910084651288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-999318340027318448.post-52592477139968867852024-03-20T21:16:00.000-07:002024-03-20T21:16:24.902-07:00 I was thinking, if the spiritual world had Tsunami watches, the warning flags would be flying, and the warning sounds tested. Spiritually speaking, a Tsunami is on the way. It is named Holy Week. We have been preparing for this encounter for almost 40 days, and there are now, only, a few days left. Theses days afford us the opportunity to refocus on the meaning of our Lenten Journey Fr. Joe Hennessy's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15441275910084651288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-999318340027318448.post-70407748400294689172024-03-13T22:02:00.000-07:002024-03-13T22:02:42.698-07:00 Tuesday March 12, 2024 ----- Boredom. " In order to live a free and happy life we must sacrifice boredom. It is not an easy sacrifice " " Running through things because you are familiar with them breeds routine" and with routine, boredom can become an, unwelcome presence. Fulghum " I fear the boredom that comes with not learning, and not taking chances." Refresh:Fr. Joe Hennessy's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15441275910084651288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-999318340027318448.post-63894032923276635532024-03-06T20:39:00.000-08:002024-03-06T20:39:08.592-08:00Warning, another blimp, this required an ambulance ride to the ER. We are behind schedule, so understanding please. How appropriate that the letter " R" For our purpose "R", stands for, resentment, and I am battling resentment,BIG TIME. Life plays some serious tricks on us ?. When we think, at least for me, we know something then we are confronted with real in-depth knowledge, and Fr. Joe Hennessy's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15441275910084651288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-999318340027318448.post-80947779589178576192024-03-02T11:10:00.000-08:002024-03-02T11:10:52.127-08:00 Blown tire on freeway upset " Friday, snack" plans. Here goes "Saturday-- lights".There is a certain incongruity about an Irishman writing about 'ANGER". I have to keep in mind this adage " We teach best what we need to learn most". That is me. The feelings of anger have a tremendous power. They are those feelings that impel those who fight injustice on all levels, and pay the price for Fr. Joe Hennessy's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15441275910084651288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-999318340027318448.post-41834482640833235582024-02-27T12:40:00.000-08:002024-02-27T12:40:31.593-08:00 Second Sunday in Lent....The Transfiguration. We have The Historical Rabbi Jesus choosing to take His "Three Amigos."....Peter, James, and John on a mountain trip. Those who have negotiated mountain climbs have to admit there is always a little change.From the struggle we are blessed with a gift. That is true also of the psychological mountains, valleys, and hills we have been chosen Fr. Joe Hennessy's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15441275910084651288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-999318340027318448.post-5118276105850613452024-02-23T18:23:00.000-08:002024-02-23T18:23:51.387-08:00" Humankind is born freehand everywhere it is in chains". So wrote Jean-Jacques Rousseau many centuries ago. Can we say the same thing about this generation, and of those past ? Unfortunately the answer is, a, resounding "YES". Because we are offered, or given gifts that does not mean we will use them, and avail ourselves of all that these gifts offer us. In order to live Fr. Joe Hennessy's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15441275910084651288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-999318340027318448.post-48788937529797747672024-02-19T18:41:00.000-08:002024-02-19T18:41:09.845-08:00 First Sunday of Lent 2024. Guilt.Last week I set up what was presented to the faith community on their entrance to their home. A few years before a Fr. Joe Hennessy's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15441275910084651288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-999318340027318448.post-2449066835841766462024-02-13T19:09:00.000-08:002024-02-13T19:09:46.930-08:00 " My lord,God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I am following your will does not mean I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please You. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing. And I hope I will Fr. Joe Hennessy's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15441275910084651288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-999318340027318448.post-85220626498261840092024-02-05T19:45:00.000-08:002024-02-05T19:45:38.532-08:00 We,I, must always remember that there is no time and space in the spiritual realm. In a few short days and weeks we are making the our journey from our encounter with the Christ Child, in His first revelation ,in Bethlehem, to His on going Presence in our depths as he grows to become The Prophet,The Rabbi Jesus. Then we will journey as we do, NOW, into His Paschal Mystery. A Mystery which Fr. Joe Hennessy's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15441275910084651288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-999318340027318448.post-76752807713656944742024-01-23T12:58:00.000-08:002024-01-23T12:58:09.141-08:00 The seasons of Advent-Christmas-Epiphany are fading into the mist of time past. That is true if we are just judging according to cronos time, watch, calendar and internet time . Our reality, our deepest reality cannot be found in man made measurements. We have to journey into Kairos time to live free and truly human life giving lives. The realities, the deepest realities of the above Fr. Joe Hennessy's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15441275910084651288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-999318340027318448.post-67232081309423122912024-01-16T19:07:00.000-08:002024-01-16T19:07:22.819-08:00 "We live life looking forward, but we understand life looking backwards". Life as we know it is a mystery. A mystery not to be solved but to be lived, one now-moment, at a time.It in essential then that we embrace this moment to moment journey as a constant journey into mystery." And Jonathan began the longest journey of all, that journey into self "' was something I first heard at a Neil Fr. Joe Hennessy's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15441275910084651288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-999318340027318448.post-1079602664776063832024-01-03T19:17:00.000-08:002024-01-03T19:17:48.722-08:00I have got to be honest, I am playing catchup !!!! Well what is new in my current situation that I have not be forced to encounter, in so many of my life situations, these many years. So these words from scripture are, for me, full of consolation and hope. " "May The Lord bless you and keep you; may The Lord make His face shine on you and be gracious to you; may The Lord turn His face toward you Fr. Joe Hennessy's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15441275910084651288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-999318340027318448.post-42790970016109651362023-12-25T17:50:00.000-08:002023-12-25T17:50:55.560-08:00 Christmas Greetings for 2023.I want to take this opportunity to wish you all a continuing mysterious understanding of The Mystery we are in the process of celebrating. The mystery of The Incarnation is intimately bound up with the mystery of who we are. To deepen ourFr. Joe Hennessy's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15441275910084651288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-999318340027318448.post-59010439709979746732023-12-19T16:41:00.000-08:002023-12-19T16:41:58.923-08:00 WOW !!! WOW !!!! What an exciting and challenging time we have been chosen to live in. We are not here by accident. We have been chosen, so that, the great mystery, that is creation, may be continually penetrated by us, and new and vitalizing gifts be conveyed, bestowed on all of creation. We are all traveling towards a horizon. A place of continual NEWNESS. A Place Fr. Joe Hennessy's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15441275910084651288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-999318340027318448.post-26339883075389585332023-12-16T12:45:00.000-08:002023-12-16T12:45:12.292-08:00" Comfort, give comfort to my people, says your, God. Speak tenderly..." thus the scriptures speak to us. Comforting another person, demands both a silent presence, and the ability to listen patiently, with no judgments. To comfort another we need to show real empathy. To be able to enter another's pain and accept the powerlessness over being able to change the reality of Fr. Joe Hennessy's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15441275910084651288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-999318340027318448.post-59016809545084887272023-12-05T18:11:00.000-08:002023-12-05T18:11:11.327-08:00 Advent 2023 must be, what the liturgical has been created to be, a time of attention, wonder , and awe.These must not be words on a page but must be action words that are validated by this Advent Season. Many of todays commentators bemoan the inhuman conditions so many of our sisters, brothers and their children are forced to live in, no ,no, rather they are forced to live inFr. Joe Hennessy's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15441275910084651288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-999318340027318448.post-52680019517717863412023-11-29T18:19:00.000-08:002023-11-29T18:19:27.201-08:00 Today is Wednesday. In some ares it is called "hump day",to show my respect for the sacredness of all time I am going to call this "Hump Day". the day between The Solemnity Of Christ The King,and The First Sunday in Advent. What a seriously mysterious day this is. It can also be confusing ? When we reflect backwards we have Christ presented a King, and Lord of all. Looking we are preparing Fr. Joe Hennessy's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15441275910084651288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-999318340027318448.post-66986108647156343742023-11-23T09:36:00.000-08:002023-11-23T09:36:40.598-08:00 " Life's not a problem to be solved, it is a mystery to be lived." I just cannot express my gratitude for being the recipient of this piece of mysterious knowledge,that I am always seeking, searching to understand. Of course that will never happen, all I can expect is being drawn into an ever deeper seeing and understanding. I am like the blind man, Bartimaeus, expressing the Fr. Joe Hennessy's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15441275910084651288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-999318340027318448.post-57479610134220878872023-11-10T19:23:00.004-08:002023-11-10T19:23:36.871-08:00 We have two great feast days in the back mirror. Another super feast is awaiting. We are gifted with the present, to be used to reflect on what has been given by those who have trudged, travelled the road of faith we are chosen to follow today. Some were our companions, other are in our consciousness because of the oral or written word. Before I go any further, here is a spiritual gem that Fr. Joe Hennessy's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15441275910084651288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-999318340027318448.post-81903511542955518922023-10-30T20:20:00.000-07:002023-10-30T20:20:06.440-07:00 Last blog I encouraged all to sing a new song. It is to be a love song. Love songs are also agony songs. Songs that describe the person's struggle with their weaknesses, but the struggle is worth is as a new understanding of what it means to be human is revealed. Such songs demand gut HONESTLY as we reflect on our deepest feelings. Not the feelings we want to share, but the feelings Fr. Joe Hennessy's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15441275910084651288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-999318340027318448.post-27416241526358835452023-10-24T16:36:00.002-07:002023-10-24T16:36:55.750-07:00 It has been awhile.So Would love to meet this new person you are NOW. Life, and all of its realities has brought a change, for better or for worse.There in no in-between. Eric Fromm says " each day we spend our time, building ourselves up, or tearing ourselves down." That is why we are encouraged by the scriptures to "Be alert." We must be alert to all our thoughts, and Fr. Joe Hennessy's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15441275910084651288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-999318340027318448.post-16859120605779581562023-10-16T22:13:00.000-07:002023-10-16T22:13:05.426-07:00 As I look out, from a very safe vantage point, I see a frightening array of wars and armed struggles. I was going through the news on my computer when I had to stop and give up. It was too much for me. I had to look within myself and as the hard question where are the wars being fought, within myself. I once read that the line between war and peace goes straight through the center of the Fr. Joe Hennessy's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15441275910084651288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-999318340027318448.post-16481186950248249432023-10-09T16:51:00.003-07:002023-10-09T17:03:08.954-07:00 " Have no anxiety at all" was the directive from,The Liturgy of The Word, this week. Well excuse me if Joe cannot obey that command. The reality is I do have anxiety. I do have fear.Sometimes, raw naked fear. This goes along with the reality of being a human person, not a machine, not a robot. I have anxiety about writing this blog. ( It happens each and every time. Just like it was when Fr. Joe Hennessy's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15441275910084651288noreply@blogger.com0