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19 Jul 2015 - Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle B

Ninety-six percent of American workers recognize the importance of taking vacation,” according to a report in Time magazine by Jack Dickey. “But over the past 30 years, the U.S. has become a no-vacation nation.” “Despite steady gains in productivity, the American worker has, in little more than a decade, ceded a full week of vacation to their employer, with no wage growth to show for it.” And when Americans do get away, they stay connected to their jobs via technology yielding little restorative effect. This does not bode well for the health and well-being of American workers, or for the success of American businesses. The three European countries that finished ahead of the U.S. in gross domestic product all guarantee workers by law at least four weeks paid vacation. Some U.S. employers are getting the message and starting to provide incentives to workers to take their vacations, including “paid paid vacations.” Bart Lorang, CEO of Denver-based internet start-up FullContact API, came up with this idea after realizing that employees often don’t feel they can afford to take vacations even when they have the time off. So he now offers them time off with a $7,500 bonus attached. There is only one catch: “The employee must disconnect entirely from the office. No emails. No phone calls,” according to the Time report. It is not always easy to get away and rest a while; even Jesus and the disciples couldn’t stop their work from following them when they tried to sneak away for some down time. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try.

Authors Patrice J. Tuohy

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07 Jul 2013 - Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle C

MIDSUMMER is a time to savor the world. Nature itself insists we pay attention to its truths. Many remember E.B. White’s essay “Once More to the Lake,” in which a father—taking his son to a lake cabin for summer vacation—lapses into memories of when his own father did the same and he, the speaker, was a boy: “I felt dizzy and didn’t know which [fishing] rod I was at the end of.” Summer is made for lying back in prayerful contemplation to recognize and give thanks for a rhythm of life often taken for granted. Walt Whitman recognized in ordinary life the blessings that surround us if only we take the time to notice: “Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan, / Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky, / Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in the edge of the water, / Or stand under trees in the woods, / Or talk by day with any one I love . . . . These with the rest, one and all, are to me miracles.” We are often occupied and preoccupied. In summer perhaps we can sit back awhile and bask in the miracles of life.

Authors Father Larry Janowski O.F.M.

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01 December 2024

Apocalypse

\ə-'pä-kə-“lips\

Alternative name for the Book of Revelation, the final book of the New Testament, that describes the end times in symbolic and allegorical language. Apocalyptic literature is concerned primarily with the fulfillment of history and God's purposes and often involves a human intermediary receiving hidden visionary knowledge of future events.

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