George Sheehan

George Sheehan on a run with Bill Rodgers.

"In facing life, no one knows exactly what is going to happen, what is going to be needed, where the search
for the Grail will lead. The best we can do is be prepared. Running makes you an athlete in all areas
-- trained in basics, ready for whatever comes, ready to live each day, fill each hour and deal with the
decisive moment. ~ George Sheehan"

We must taste and see that the Lord is sweet . Gustate et videte quoniam suavis est Dominus. ~ Thomas Merton ~

Spring

A photo of My Dad taken in Vietnam 1970.

Ancestry.com - Vietnam War, Awards and Decorations of Honor, 1965-1972



Name: Frank Palevo
Date Recommended Award Received : 7 May 1971
Date Award Forwarded : 21 Dec 1970
Service/Country: U.S. Army
Command/Staff: I Corps
Recommended Award: Soldiers Medal (Army)
Approved Award: Soldiers Medal (Army)
Location Award Presented: Award Presented in Republic of Vietnam [South Vietnam] (RVN)
Posthumous: Award presented while Living "

Cool start to Spring

Flowers and plants are ready to awake from a dormant winter.

Spring is lethargic and disorganized.

Spring give us new life.

Anthony Palevo

Twelfth Station ~ Jesus dies on the Cross

Father forgive them , for they know not what they do. (Lk. 23:34) "The answer which we await today can only come Christ crucified. He stands beside all who ask him for an awakening of new hope." ~ John Paul II

Walking on the road to Emmaus with Christ

"Lord, I believe in you; increase my faith particularly in your resurrection. Lord, I hope in you; give me the hope that you will be faithful to all your promises. Lord, increase my love; grant me a generous and constant love. Thank you for all your graces and benefits in my life. "

Where are you Spring ?

Chilly windy days and frigid nights. Where are you Spring? Dark green leafs and white flowers. Spring why do you mock us? Spring give us new life. Anthony Palevo

Psalm 98

O Lord our God , you answered them.

For them you were a God who forgives ;

yet you punished all their offenses.

Exalt the Lord our God ;

bow down before his holy mountian

for the Lord our God is holy.

'Dominus Jesus' reaffirms Catholic Church's claims to truth

Saint Peter insists to be crucified upside down , because he is not worthy to die like his Saviour Jesus the Christ.

Establishment of the Catholic Church ,

"And I say to you , you are Peter , and upon this rock I shall build my church , and the gates of the Netherworld shall not prevail agianst it." Mt. 16:18

'Dominus Jesus' reaffirms Catholic Church's claims to truth: "Dominus Jesus asserts in Chapter One that the 'full revelation of divine truth' comes through Jesus Christ and His Church. Thus it is wrong to suggest that the Catholic Church is 'complementary' to other religions, while Chapter Two refutes the views of theologians who say that the Holy Spirit has 'a more universal breadth' than the Church. Citing the teachings of Vatican II, Dominus Jesus points out that that there is only one economy of salvation, and 'the action of the Spirit is not outside or parallel to the action of Christ.'
In the fourth and fifth Chapters, Dominus Jesus notes that the salvation promised by Jesus Christ comes through the Catholic Church, his 'bride' and Mystical Body. The Catholic Church - defined as the Church that has maintained apostolic succession - is the one true Church.

While the document acknowledges that some Orthodox churches, which have maintained apostolic succession, although they do not accept the primacy of Peter, represent the true Church, other Christian bodies do not enjoy the same status. Through Baptism, it says, the members of these Christian ecclesial bodies are 'incorporated in Christ' and maintain 'a certain communion, albeit imperfect,' with the Church."

The four marks of the Catholic Church are One , Holy , Catholic and Apostolic.

Christianity timeline

Christianity timeline

Most Holy Family Monastery

"Quote of the Day

Spirituality

St. Francis of Assisi (+ c. 1210): [To the Muslims] “We have come to preach faith in Jesus Christ to you, that you will renounce Mohammad, that wicked slave of the Devil, and obtain everlasting life like us.” (St. Francis of Assisi, A Biography, by Omer Englebert, 1979, pp. 178-179)"

Family photo`s

My Mother , sister and nephew with Willie and Toni in Abenberg Germany.





My Mother with her Tante Maria in Abenberg Germany.





My Uncle Phil and my Dad in a 1981 photo taken in Clarksville Tennessee .

Purple Dream

O God , you are my God , for you I long ;

for you my soul is thirsting ,

My body pines for you

like a dry , weary land without water.

So I gaze on you in sanctuary

to see your strength and your glory.

Psalm 62



Photo taken in the late 1970`s with magnifying filters.

Houston - We`ve landed on Mars

We`ve landed on the Moon , and now we have landed on Mars and discovered life. Really !

Saint Maximillian Kolbe

A Psalm for Saint Maximillian I cry out to Yahweh ; he answers from his holy mountain. Psalm 3:4

SAINT of the MONTH: "Maximillian Kolbe

14th August

Christian witness amidst 20th century suffering



Some people's lives seem to epitomise the suffering of millions, but also to shine with a Christian response to it. One such person was Maximilian Kolbe, 1894 - 1941, a Franciscan priest of Poland, and publisher extraordinary.

Maximilian was born at Zdunska Wola, near Lodz, where his parents, devout Christians, worked in a cottage weaving industry. Like thousands of others at the time, the family and their village was ground into poverty by Russian exploitation. In 1910 Maximilian entered the Franciscan Order, and studied at Rome. After his ordination in 1919, Maximilian returned to Poland, where he was sent to teach church history in a seminary. But a new factor had entered his life: he diagnosed with tuberculosis.

Living in post-war Poland was difficult enough, but with tuberculosis as well - most people would have quietly withered away. Not Maximilian Kolbe. Instead, the tuberculosis gave Maximilian a sense of urgency - a sense of the brief transitoriness of this life. He knew his time was slipping away. Instead of teaching history, he determined to do something to help the Christians living in Poland now, in the tatters of Europe after the First World War. And so he founded a magazine for Christian readers in Cracow, who badly needed effective apologetics to help them hold to their faith in a chaotic world.

Soon, the obsolete printing presses (which were operated by Maximilian's fellow priests and lay brothers) were working overtime - the magazine's circulation had leapt to 45,000. Then the printing presses were moved to a town near Warsaw, Niepokalanow, where Maximilian now founded a Franciscan community which combined prayer w"

Tree Lines

Lines of life

The Magnificat

And Mary said: My soul proclaims the greatness of the the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my Saviour. Luke 1 : 46 - 47

Love Circle Park

Love Circle Park in Nashville Tennessee is 744 feet above sea level, and it is also a great skyline of Nashville.

Running around Love Circle is refreshing and quiet.

Atkinson's 'Soul Searching' follows Merton's journey

Oh, Father Louie , though you left this life to soon you have touched so many lives, lost souls, people of different beliefs and non - believers in Christ.

Anthony Palevo

Atkinson's 'Soul Searching' follows Merton's journey: "The short life and spiritual exploration of Trappist monk and author Thomas Merton is the subject of a new documentary by Louisvillian Morgan Atkinson, whose previous film, 'Gethsemani,' looked inside the Kentucky abbey where Merton lived for 27 years.
'Soul Searching, the Journey of Thomas Merton' relies on interviews and Merton's journals to provide details about the Catholic monk's early life in New York, his spiritual awakening, a midlife crisis involving his love for a beautiful nurse and his accidental death by electrocution while attending a 1968 conference in Bangkok.


Atkinson will discuss the hour-long film at a 7 p.m. screening next Monday at the Clifton Center Theater, 2117 Payne St. The program is sponsored by the Merton Institute for Contemplative Living, which is at the Clifton Center. Admission is free, but a $10 donation toward the Merton Institute is suggested.
The documentary, produced for about $150,000, will be broadcast on KET in the spring. It is the seventh film by Atkinson to be shown on the public TV network. Other works aired on KET include 'Gethsemani'; 'Metro, Act One,' about Louisville's merged government; and 'A Way of Life: Basketball in Kentucky.'
Funding for the new film was provided by KET, the Kentucky Humanities Council, the Louisville Institute, the Kentucky Arts Council and more than 75 individuals. Steve Staley of Louisville served as director of photography, and jazz musician Dick Sisto, who was a friend of Merton's, composed the music.
To make the film about the author of the autobiographical best-seller 'The Seven Storey Mountain,' Atkinson traveled to New York City, New Mexico, the redwood forests of Northern California and to the Abbey of Gethsem"