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Flight Feathers

July 2, 2020
Embers from the Fire A weekly blog by Deacon Dan Wagnitz for the Quad Parish Community Flight Feathers – 7/2/2020 I have my own geese. True, they live by a retention pond about a mile away from my house, but

Blades of Grass

June 26, 2020
Embers from the Fire A weekly blog by Deacon Dan Wagnitz for the Quad Parish Community Blades of Grass – 6/26/2020 Sometimes it takes awhile to notice something. Sometimes it’s a long while. This week I finally noticed grass. Or

Delight

June 19, 2020
Embers from the Fire A weekly blog by Deacon Dan Wagnitz for the Quad Parish Community Delight – 6/19/2020 I didn’t go far on my walk the other day when I saw them all over the neighbor’s yard. They were

All In His Time

May 29, 2020
Embers from the Fire A weekly blog by Deacon Dan Wagnitz for the Quad Parish Community All In His Time – 5/31/2020 Growing up I had a doorway to adventure right in my own bedroom. Well, it was really more

Of Dandelions

May 22, 2020
Embers from the Fire A weekly blog by Deacon Dan Wagnitz for the Quad Parish Community Of Dandelions – 5/22/2020 My father passed away in April of 1984.  He has been gone a long time.  Even though now I am

Community

May 14, 2020
Embers from the Fire A weekly blog by Deacon Dan Wagnitz for the Quad Parish Community Community – 5/15/2020 The Great Oak stood at the top of the hill, overlooking the town. In winter the squirrels burrowed in leafy dens

Hoist the Jolly Roger!

May 1, 2020
A weekly blog by Deacon Dan Wagnitz for the Quad Parish Community Hoist the Jolly Roger! – 5/1/2020 The only human truly infinite wilderness is the wilderness of the imagination. I remember well my first experience of the infinite. It

Times of Transformation

April 24, 2020
A weekly blog by Deacon Dan Wagnitz for the Quad Parish Community Times of Transformation – 4/24/2020 I have been watching a transformation over the last month. All winter long gold finches have been coming to our backyard feeders. They

An Encounter with Divine Mercy

April 17, 2020
A weekly blog by Deacon Dan Wagnitz for the Quad Parish Community An Encounter with Divine Mercy – 4/17/2020 I had come to the Divine Mercy celebration Mass at St. Agnes in Green Bay the previous year and had been