• A Dark Night Of Spirit

  We are born with deeply greedy hearts, hardwired so that, spontaneously and insatiably, we are driven to possess what we love and find beautiful.  Etty Hillesum once described this in

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• Young In God’s Eyes

  Several years ago, I spent two months living in the guest house of a Trappist monastery.Visitors from many parts of the world would pass through, spend of a few days,

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• The Importance Of The Empty Tomb

  During my recent sabbatical, I was taking a course at the Center for Science and Religion in Berkeley, California. The professor, a professional scientist and devout Christian, began one lecture

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• Invincible Ignorance and Good Friday

  The old manuals in moral theology made a distinction between two kinds of ignorance, culpable and inculpable. The latter, also termed invincible ignorance, was seen as something which excused one

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• Poetic Imagination

  The night before he first knelt to become “the most reluctant convert in all of Christendom,” C.S. Lewis spent some long hours walking with J.R Tolkien, the famous novelist (Lord

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• The Interrupted Life

  022891 Someone once suggested that “life is what happens to you while you’re planning it”; Etty Hillesum’s exceptional diaries are entitled, An Interrupted Life; and Henri Nouwen says: “I used

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• Paschal Imagination

  The night before he first knelt to became “the most reluctant convert in all of Christendom”, C.S. Lewis spent some long hours walking with J.R. Tolkien, the famous novelist (Lord

  https://ronrolheiser.com/paschal-imagination/

• Take Up Your Couch And Walk

  Daniel Berrigan once wrote that if Jesus returned to earth he would pick up the whips he used on the moneychangers, go into counseling offices and therapy groups, and drive

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• Love and our Baptismal Robes

  Inside of each of us, rooted so deeply that no cynicism or hurt can ever eradicate it, lays the ideal of purity. In the end, all of us hate stain,

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• A Prayer for Peace

              “LORD, OUR GOD …                         We come to you in helplessness.                         We have at this time                                     no prophet, priest, prince, or leader.

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