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Advent: Curing Fire by Fire
“The only hope, or else despairLies in the choice of pyre or pyre –To be redeemed from fire by fire.Who then devised the torment? Love.Love is the unfamiliar nameBehind the
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Advent: Gestating Hope into Reality
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, as even his critics admit, was a man of hope. Indeed his whole vision of things is generally criticized for being too hopeful. So, in trying
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The Joy of Children as the Prophetic Message of Christmas
Several years ago, just before Christmas, a young mother shared with me how, for her, one of the great joys of motherhood was that she got to see Christmas again
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Advent: Creating a Space of Chastity
In one of her early books, Annie Dillard shares how she once learned a lesson, the hard way, about the importance of waiting. She had been watching a butterfly slowly
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Advent: Preparing for the Sublime
A couple of years ago, Robert Waller published a book that became a runaway bestseller and an immensely popular movie. Entitled, The Bridges of Madison County, it stirred the romantic
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Culpable and Inculpable Ignorance
“Forgive them Father for they know not what they do!” Jesus said this of his executioners. But a question can be asked: Is this true? Were Jesus’ executioners really that
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Weeping in a Valley of Tears
My mother and father had a strong faith. They prayed every day and had us, as a family, pray with them. One of the prayers they said daily was the
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Being Present to God and Life
Shortly after his conversion, St. Augustine penned these immortal words: “Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient, ever new, late have I loved you! You were within me,
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Risking God’s Mercy
Shortly after ordination, doing replacement work in a parish, I found myself in a rectory with a saintly old priest. He was over eighty, nearly blind, but widely sought out
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Religious Literacy
In a recent book, New Catholics for a New Century, Arthur Jones, an American analyst, makes an interesting comment. He says that when liberals and conservatives argue today in the