• Being Missionary to our own Children

  It is no secret that we’re having trouble passing the faith on to our own children. Our churches are greying and emptying and our own children are no longer walking

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• Cassie Bernall – Unlikely Martyr

  One of the students who died in the massacre at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, was a seventeen year-old girl named Cassie Bernall. Soon afterwards a story began to

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• The Potential and Dangers of Powerlessness

  One of the characters in Ursula Hegi’s brilliant novel on Nazi Germany, Stones from the River, is named Ilse Abramowitz. Ilse is a Jewish woman whose husband, Michael, had been

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• Seize the Moment!

  Carpe diem! Everyone wants to seize the day. But as Irish novelist, John McGahern, says: “There is nothing more difficult to seize than the day!” Why? Because we have a

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• The Beauty of Light and Morality

  In the Hebrew scriptures we are presented with the rainbow as a sign of the resurrection and of God’s unconditional love for us. What a beautiful, wonderful, apt symbol! A

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• Forgive Them for they know not what they do!

  As Jesus is being crucified, he asks his Father to forgive his killers. These are his words: “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they are doing!” Karl Rahner

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• The Value of Ritual in Sustaining Prayer

  In a homily at a wedding, Dietrich Bonhoeffer once gave this advice to a young couple: “Today you are young and very much in love and you think that your

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• Contemplative Prayer

  One of the great spiritual writers of our time is Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk. Merton, though, wasn’t born in a monastery. A checkered past and a driving restlessness led

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• Affective Prayer

  A couple of years ago, I attended a six-day retreat given by Robert Michel, an Oblate colleague and a highly sought-after spiritual mentor. His approach was disarming. Most of us

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• Seeing the Resurrection

  God never overpowers, never twists arms, never pushes your face into something so as to take away your freedom. God respects our freedom and is never a coercive force. And

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