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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
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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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Seeing What Lies Near Our Doorsteps
Henri Nouwen once suggested that if you want to understand the tragedy of the Second World War, you can read a hundred history books about it and watch a thousand
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One God, One Guidance System, and One Road for Us All
At the end of the day, all of us, believers and non-believers, pious and impious, share one common humanity and all end up on the same road. This has many
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Making a Recessive Journey
In a particularly poignant passage in her poem, The Leaf and the Cloud, Mary Oliver pictures herself standing at the gravesite of her mother and father, reflecting on their lives.