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Justice and Spirituality
A crucial spiritual task for our time is that of bringing together justice and contemplation, commitment to the poor and genuine worship of God. Few do it well. More often
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Taken Completely by God
Theresa of Avila would sometimes become very bold in her prayer and say to God: Kiss me full on the mouth. This is her own twist to the opening line
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Truth and the Resurrection
As children we live in a dream world, naively believing that there is somewhere a divine magic which can, and will in the end, swish away all evil, injustice, and
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An Evening With Jim Wallis
A crucial spiritual task for our time is that of bringing together justice and contemplation, commitment to the poor and genuine worship of God, Few do it well. More often
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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