• Workaholism and Greed

  There’s only one addiction for which we are praised – overworking. With every other addiction, concerned others are looking to put you into a clinic or into a recovery program,

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• Risking God’s Mercy

  Shortly after ordination, doing replacement work in a parish, I found myself in a rectory with a saintly old priest. He was over eighty, nearly blind, but widely sought out

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• Celebrating Fifty Years of Ordination

  Fifty years ago, on an overcast, cold, fall day in the gymnasium of the local public high school, I was ordained to the priesthood. Beyond the grey sky, another thing

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• How to Pray When We Don’t Feel Like It

  If we only prayed when we felt like it, we wouldn’t pray a lot. Enthusiasm, good feelings, and fervor will not sustain anyone’s prayer life for long, good will and

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• Writing Your Own Obituary

  There comes a time in life when it’s time to stop writing your resume and begin to write your obituary. I’m not sure who first coined that line, but there’s

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• Dying Alone in the Desert

  Recently I received a letter from a friend who shared that she was afraid to accept a certain vocation because it would leave her too much alone. She shared this

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• On Being Jealous of God’s Generosity

  “The cock will crow at the breaking of your own ego – there are lots of ways to wake up!” John Shea gave me those words and I understood them

  https://ronrolheiser.com/on-being-jealous-of-gods-generousity-2/

• Our Real Demons

  What’s in an image? An image can imprint itself indelibly into our consciousness so that we cannot not picture a thing except in a certain way. Take, for instance, Leonardo

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• A Biblical Formula for Forgiveness

  Nothing is as important as forgiveness. It is the key to happiness and the most important spiritual imperative in our lives. We need to forgive, to make peace with the

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• The Magnificat

  A wise old Augustinian priest once shared this in class. There are days in my life when everything from the pressures of my work, to tiredness, to depression, to distraction,

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