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From Asking to be Carried to Helping Carry
An icon is a holy picture, an image showing something of the divine. Perhaps the best icon to depict adulthood is a picture of a mother or a father carrying
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Falling Asleep out of Sorrow
“And they were asleep out of sorrow.” St. Luke uses those words to tell us why the disciples fell asleep during Jesus’ agony in the Garden. They fell asleep, he
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Reflection on Vocations
Shortly after he entered the Trappists, Thomas Merton wrote up the story of his conversion and journey to a monastery in a book, Seven- Story Mountain. It became a best-seller
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Faith’s Darkness
Why does God stay hidden? Why doesn’t’ God reveal himself so concretely and physically that no one could doubt his existence? I like Karl Rahner’s perspective on this. God isn’t
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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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