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Balancing Action And Contemplation
It is never easy to find the balance between being and doing, prayer and work, contemplation and action, interiority and external involvement, soul craft and statecraft, mysticism and politics, piety
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The Death of a Princess
Few events in recent memory have so emotionally caught the world, as has the death of Princess Diana. I was in Asia at the time and, even there, despite vast
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The Way Of Trust
William Stringfellow was once addressing a group of social justice advocates on a day when they were particularly discouraged because a key project, to which they had given considerable time
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Prophetic Balance
A couple of years ago, while serving on a board seeking to hire a fulltime social justice director, we were discerning the pros and cons of hiring a particular person
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The Good Samaritan
Who is my neighbour? What does it mean to be neighbour to one another? Jesus once answered this by telling us the parable of the Good Samaritan. In essence, as
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Heaven’s Language
What language will we speak in heaven? A curious question perhaps, but one that might be profitably meditated. How will we communicate with each other in heaven? How, there, will
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Ad Usum
A few years ago, a young Benedictine Monk shared with me how, for all the early years of his religious life, he had been resentful because he had to ask
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The Way Of Surrender
The gospel is not as much about worthiness as it is about surrender. What God wants from us is not a million acts of virtue, but a million acts of
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Post-Modernism And Our Children
Twice in my life, once just before I was ordained a priest and then again just before I was installed as provincial superior of the Oblates, I had to take
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On Praying The Hours
Recently I read a book that was so good it made me resolve never to miss praying the hours of the church again. Its author, David Steindl-Rast, a Benedictine monk,