• Protect Us From All Anxiety

  During the prayers at a Eucharist, just after the Lord’s Prayer, the priest adds the following: “Protect us from all anxiety …”  In English it is not so clear what

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• Daily Mass

  I have been a priest for more than twenty years and one of the great privileges of that has been the opportunity to say mass daily. At that daily mass

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• In Defense of Religion

  Today, more and more, God and religion are seen as either a naiveté or a compost. For a good number of persons, belief in God and religious practice are seen

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• 1996 Will Be A Good Year If

  Bernard Lonergan, one of the great intellectuals of our century, used to speak of something he called differentiated consciousness. For him, that meant a mind that did not think simplistically,

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• A Human Saint

  On December 3rd, 1995, Pope John Paul II formally declared Eugene de Mazenod, the former bishop of Marseilles, France, a saint of the church. For myself, this was not just

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• The Fire that Shimmers Deep Within Things

  “About the best way I can describe the transformation is to say that, now, I see colors!” A man once shared this story with me: He had recently undergone a

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• The Christ Movement Downwards

  There is an Aztec poem called, Ultimate Problem. It runs something like this:              In the Aztec design             God is in the little pea                         that is forever rolling

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• It’s a Lot Easier to Take Care of Ourselves

  There is a story told about St. Vincent de Paul which, while perhaps embellished by myth, needs nonetheless to be told and told and told again for its challenge is

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• A Church Grieves Its Lost Innocence

  One distinguishing characteristic of our church today in the Western world is that we are a grieving church. We live in a certain sadness, somewhere between a death and a

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• The Pharisee And The Publican

  There is an ancient parable about prayer which is also a parable about liturgical prayer. One version of it runs something like this: Two liturgical committees once met to plan

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