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Gethsemane – The Spirit Is Willing But The Flesh Is Weak
(Fifth in a six-part Lenten Series) “Her beauty in the moonlight overthrew you!” Leonard Cohen coined that phrase in a melancholic poem, Hallelujah, and it reflects how certain things can
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Gethsemane – As The Place We Are Put To The Test
(Fourth in a six-part Lenten Series) “A common soldier dies without fear, but Jesus died afraid.” Iris Murdoch wrote those words and they teach one of the lessons of Gethsemane.
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Gethsemane – The Place Of Moral Loneliness
(Third in a six-part Lenten Series) Our deepest loneliness is not sexual, but moral. More than we yearn for someone to sleep with sexually and emotionally, we yearn for someone
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Gethsemane – A Place To Learn A Lesson
(Second in a six-part Lenten Series) There’s nothing wrong with wanting health, success, beauty, power, glamour, money, or fame. Of themselves, these are good and can, if used properly, help
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Gethsemane As Liminal Space
(First in a six-part Lenten Series) There’s never a good time to die, to bid final good-byes, to lose health, to have a heart attack, to be diagnosed with terminal
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Lost Is A Place Too
In her book, Survivor, Christina Crawford writes: “Lost is a place, too.” That’s more than a clever sound-byte. It’s a deep truth that’s often lost in a world within which
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“Get Behind Me Satan!”
When you read the lives of the saints, especially in some older books, you can get the impression that they lived in a different world. Many of them describe physical
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Honoring Jacques Dupuis
Mirceade Eliade, the anthropologist, once said: “No community should botch its deaths! Sadly, we often do and great men and women pass from our midst without us recognizing what they’ve
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Against An Infinite Horizon
Does belief in life after death have an impact on how we live our lives right now? Should it? Several years ago I watched a panel of theologians discuss this
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The Inclusive Embrace of Catholicism
Canadian theologian, Michael Higgins, recently made this observation. At the upcoming Academy Awards, two movies will take centre stage, Mel Gibson’s, THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST, and Michael Moore’s, FAHRENHEIT
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