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A Mellow Heart in a Bitter Time
In her novel, A Good House, Bonnie Burnard tells the story of a relatively happy family. But even happy families have unhappy moments where bitterness chills an otherwise warm house.
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A Voice That Never Dies
Easter is about many things. We celebrate God’s power to overcome death, sin, and injustice, but we also celebrate the voices and wounds of the ones who died on Good
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Jesus’ Last Words
Just before he dies on the cross, Jesus utters these words: “It is finished!” What’s “finished”? These words can be spoken in different ways: They can be words of defeat
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Mary Under the Cross
One of the most popular images in all of scripture (an icon that’s been endlessly painted, sung, put into litanies, written up into poetry, and used to triggered every kind
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Walking Away Out of Sorrow (5 of 6)
[Fifth in a six-part Lenten series on Mystical Images] What do we do when we’re depressed? What’s our temptation when a dream is shattered, when we feel betrayed, and when
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Helping Simon of Cyrene Carry Jesus’ Cross (4 of 6)
[Fourth in a six-part Lenten Series on Mystical Images] “It seems as though through purely earthly accidents we are made responsible for what is heavenly and divine.” Karl Rahner wrote
https://ronrolheiser.com/helping-simon-of-cyrene-carry-jesus-cross-4-of-6/
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Betraying Jesus as Peter Did (3 of 6)
[Third in a six-part Lenten series on “Mystical Images”] Anthropologists tell us that men and women have different congenital flaws. For men, it would seem that the flaw that’s more
https://ronrolheiser.com/betraying-jesus-as-peter-did-3-of-6/
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Sweating Blood in the Garden (2 of 6)
[Second in a six-part lenten series on “Mystical Images”] “In his anguish he prayed even more earnestly, and his sweat fell to the ground like great drops of blood.” Luke
https://ronrolheiser.com/sweating-blood-in-the-garden-2-of-6/
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Listening to Christ’s Heartbeat (1 of 6)
[First in a six-part Lenten series on “Mystical Images”] How do you hear a heartbeat? At the end of her novel, A Map of Glass, Jane Urquhart, has her heroine,
https://ronrolheiser.com/listening-to-christs-heartbeat-1-of-6/
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Love’s Baptismal Robe
D.H. Lawrence once wrote a poem on love he called, History. It reads like this: The listless beauty of the hour When snow first fell on the apple trees And