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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
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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
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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
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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
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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