Mission Blog: Easter Orchid Series Naples, Florida. Down here in our Florida Corona-decampment/winter place, I’ve been waiting all the long and prolonged winter season for Evelyn’s orchids to bloom. She’s a master gardener, but when we got back here in early winter from many months away, I declared them “dead”. “They’re not dead Steve,” she countered confidently. “I will
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Mission in the Cloud. Today we challenge you with a “Trifecta”. After, this is the last day of Holy Week! Challenge 1: Spend some time in prayer reflecting on all you’ve learned about yourself over this week. On the streets of SoHo, the missionaries like to call Holy Saturday “Last Chance Saturday.” That may sound a
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One of the centerpieces of the SoHo mission each year are the live stations of the cross. Our teen team always runs this for the parish, and the re-enacted visual of our tortured Lord being paraded, literally, through the streets of SoHo is a crowd stopper. The whole neighborhood drops into a respectful silence. On
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“When he returned to his disciples he found them asleep. He said to Peter, ‘So you not keep watch with me for one hour?’” Mt 26: 40 Mission in the Cloud. Last night, Evelyn and I did our evening reflection on Matthew 26:36-46, the homework assignment of Fr. Mark Haydu at the 6:00 FB Mass that was part
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“I have finished the race; I have kept the faith.” Timothy 4:7 Mission in the Cloud, Prayer Room, Naples. Midnight. Balmy evening, very humid for this time of year, even for Naples. The prayer room is dead silent, the fountain outside has gone quiet. In the sky, suddenly—and a little mysteriously –an orange orb emerges as an unseen cloud floats
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“I’ve been getting a lot of positive feedback from many of you about our daily challenge. Here is a very beautiful testimony from one of our NYC missionaries who I always think of as “The smiling missionary.” She always has the biggest, broadest smile welling out of her, regardless of the conditions out in SoHo.
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Dear Fellow Cloud Missionaries, Thank you for praying the rosary together yesterday. I know everyone tried to do so with your families or neighbors. Many of us were with Fathers Mark and Jason for their daily 6:00 pm rosary, which Evelyn and I joined as well. (Just found out about it in the cloud! Re-starts
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“Then he asked them, “Why are you terrified? Do you not yet have faith?” Mark 4:40 Mission in the Cloud, Morning Prayer Room. This morning, as I prayed about the coming Triduum, with my “Be Not Afraid” flag beneath the cross, I found myself falling back again on this whole Light and Darkness thing. Also banging around in my
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Mission in the Cloud. Mary has been a big part of our mission this year, as always. She’s with us every day now as meditate on the Memorare for our soulmate from a previous mission, and reading the stories from yesterday’s phone calls to the lonely and isolated, she was clearly present there as well.
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Daily Challenge: Call or email your nearby neighbors and ask the to join you at sunset to do a rosary on their front porches together with you to mark the beginning of the Triduum tomorrow. Holy Wednesday Mediation First, watch Lauren’s talk here: NYC Virtual Holy Week Youth Mission Gratitude What is my main symptom
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