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Some Of The People
Michael Meade, the mythologist, is one of the truly gifted story tellers in America today. Maybe it’s his Irish chromosomes, but when he tells a story everyone, from young to
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A Church Which Comforts
Recently I attended a church synod in my home diocese. About 200 very committed persons had gathered for a week to reflect on what the church should be doing today.
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My Parents Shaped My Soul
Introspection is not always a bad thing. On occasion, it’s good to reflect on the persons and events that helped shape your soul. This is a form of prayer of
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Ten New Commandments
God once gave us Ten Commandments to help teach us love. They are not infallible indicators of love, for we can keep them and still not be loving, but they
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David Facing Goliath
There is no substitute for imagination. Without good images for integrating experience, brute reality overpowers us and leaves us feeling depressed and helpless. Unless our symbols are working, we have.
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Headlong into the Pudding
Many of us, I am sure, are concerned that Christmas has become too much of a secular and commercial event. Stores put up Christmas decorations in late October, Santa Claus
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Headlong Into The Pudding
Many of us, I am sure, are concerned that Christmas has become too much of a secular and commercial event. Stores put up Christmas decorations in late October, Santa Claus
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They Were Moral Lovers
This summer one of my sisters died. As much as we all miss her, none of us, including her own children, feels her absence as much as does her husband.
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Life’s Incessant Longing
All life is fired by longing. The simplest of plants and the highest of human love have this in common—yearning, restlessness, a certain insatiable pressure to eat, to grow, to
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A Sensual Heaven
Andrew Greeley once suggested that we might profitably meditate the following vision of heaven: “What will the resurrection be like? . . . The condition of physical ecstasy and emotional