• Life’s Quest for Service

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin once said something to the effect that we reach moral maturity on the day we realize that, ultimately, we have to choose: genuflect before something higher

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• A Cast of Characters

  Here are some quotes that might prove helpful before approaching the cross to do reverence on Good Friday. “I’m a Roman soldier, a gambler, I size things up, I calculate,

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• A Culture of Complaint

  A recent article in Time magazine, entitled The Fraying of America suggests that over­sensitivity, political correctness, and a culture of complaint is leading to the breakdown of community. Perhaps the

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• Sitting in the Ashes

  I’ve gone through many changes in my relationship to the ashes that mark our foreheads at the beginning of Lent. When I was little, they brought me the distraction that

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• Another Type Of Icon

  Many people are aided in prayer by icons. I am too, though because I am more intuitive than sensate, the icons that move me more deeply are often not pious

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• The Prayer Of Charity

  God is found in solitude and silence! Few reputable spiritual traditions dispute this. Long­standing in Christian tradition is the dictum that nobody makes progress in the spiritual life unless he

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• A Lesson Of Fundamentalism

  Many of us today look askance at circles of piety, especially fundamentalistic ones. Most mainline Christians, share a common distrust and disdain for those who, with irritating enthusiasm, proudly, militantly,

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• A Heart With Many Rooms

  How many Catholics do you know today who are not frustrated or angry about something? Generally their frustration stems from the fact that they are fiercely committed and loyal to

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• Let’s Look At Neo-Paganism

  One of the most significant developments in the Western world today is the growth of neo-paganism. The manifestations of this are everywhere—in the arts, in the churches, and within intellectual

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• Cultivating Loneliness

  Few persons in recent centuries have touched the human heart as deeply as has Soren Kierkegaard, the Danish philosopher. There are many reasons for this, some of which are obvious.

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