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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,
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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
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What’s Worthwhile is Worth Waiting For
Various groups are travelling around high schools and colleges today promoting chastity among young people. They aren’t always getting an enthusiastic reception. One commentator recently quipped: “They’re telling young people
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Helping Each Other into Heaven
“To really love someone is to say to that person, you at least will not die!” Gabriel Marcel wrote those words and they speak of more than simple romance. Inside
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Deeper Thing Under the Surface
We connect to each other at different levels. How we do that through words is one thing, but that isn’t the only thing or often even the most important thing.
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Making the Taboo a Holy Place
There are no places where God isn’t present, though we rarely believe that. Like the people of old, we still have certain taboo areas, places that for us are far
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Standing Under the Cross
As Jesus was dying, the Gospels say that Mary, his mother, stood under the cross. What was she doing while standing there? On the surface, it seems she wasn’t doing
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Sin and Sadness
French philosopher, Leon Bloy, a man very instrumental in helping bring Jacques and Raissa Maritain to faith, once stated: “There is only one real sadness in life, that of not
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An Immune System within the Body of Christ
We’ve gone mystically tone-deaf. Robert Bellah tells how one of his researchers, speaking at a conference, made the statement: “Some people believe that human life is priceless.” A scientific expert,
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Keeping Watch with the Shepherds in Bethlehem
“And shepherds were keeping watch in the night!” When the Gospel of Luke recounts the Christmas story, it tells us that, when Jesus was born, shepherds were keeping watch in
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