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Feed the Hungry
A cynic once quipped: “What would you get if you crossed a radical liberal social justice advocate with a strongly conservative pious daily communicant?” The answer? Dorothy Day! That’s a
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The Corporal Works of Mercy
Long before it was fashionable to publish books of lists, my generation was asked to memorize them. As children, many of us were asked to memorize, among other things, a
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The Evangelization of Desire
For some years now, an Oblate colleague of mine has been developing an idea he calls: The Evangelization of Desire. Among other things, he gives a retreat to help persons
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From Gifted Child To Giving Adult
Nearly fifteen years ago, Swiss analyst, Alice Miller produced a little essay that made a big impact, The Drama of the Gifted Child. For her, the gifted child is not
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Common Ground
Concerned with an ever-intensifying polarization within the church, the late Cardinal Joseph Bernardin made a proposal for something he called Common Ground, an ecclesial space within which persons of very
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The Court Jester’s New Year’s Advice
Don’t think. If you think, don’t speak. If you think and speak, don’t write. If you think and speak and write, don’t sign your name.
https://ronrolheiser.com/the-court-jesters-new-years-advice/
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Christmas – A Time To Rise Above Gloom
A lot of people would like to see Christmas cancelled, not exactly the feast itself, but the hoopla with which we surround it. What is being argued for is a
https://ronrolheiser.com/christmas-a-time-to-rise-above-gloom/
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Happiness and Meaning
“Are you happy?” How would you honestly answer that? My suspicion is that, for most of us, this would be a painful question which, given our fantasy of what happiness
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The Power of a Candle
In South Africa, prior to the abolition of apartheid, people used to light candles and place them in their windows as a sign of hope, a sign that one day
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Advent Longing
There is a loneliness that can be rocked. Arms crossed, knees drawn up, holding, holding on, this motion, unlike a ship’s, smooths and contains the rocker. It’s an inside kind