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Make Space For Christ In Life
At the beginning of this Advent, someone handed me a batch of stickers which read: Keep Christ in Christmas. “Do something with these,” he lamented, “put them on your car,
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A Recipe For Life’s Blender
Cross-fertilization always makes for interesting combinations, novel sparks. Recently, I ran a number of very different kinds of writers, C.S. Lewis, John Updike, G.K. Chesterton, Iris Murdoch, William Auden, Keith
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Taking The Sting Out Of Life
“Mother tended to become riveted on what she felt as a personal slight or insult but she would not discuss it with you…She silently brooded over the incident and carried
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Pagan Saints For Modern Sinners
The idea of invoking the saints for help has fallen on hard times. Most Christians have no patience whatsoever with this concept. Generally, saints within the church are either benignly
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God Beats Small-Time Blues
Sigmund Freud once stated that neurosis is the disease of the normal person and that everyone is neurotic to some degree. This is true if one defines neurosis as he
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Make Your Welcome Hearty
In October of 1933, Peter Maurin wrote the following poem and commentary in The Catholic Worker: People who are in need and are not afraid to beg give
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Saying Goodbye Part Of Life
T.S. Eliot once said that home is where we start from. These words describe my feelings as summer draws to its close. For me, it’s been a summer away from
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Sitting At A Mystic’s Feet
Recently, while traveling in England, I was offered a rare and privileged opportunity. A former student of mine arranged for me to meet with Ruth Burrows, the Carmelite spiritual writer.
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Choosing Between Sacraments
Christianity is the most pagan of all religions. It is the most earthy religion because it believes that God has become incarnate in earth. What an astonishing belief! Ordinary life
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Leaving God’s Mark
“We nurse within our hearts the hope that we are different, that we are special, that we are extraordinary. We long for the assurance that our birth was no accident,