• Joy – A Sign of God

  There is only one true sadness, not being a saint! French novelist, philosopher, essayist, Leon Bloy ends his novel The Woman Who Was Poor with that much-quoted line. Here is

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• What is Love Asking of Me Now?

  Several years ago, a colleague of mine suffered a crushing disappointment. Her instinctual temptation was towards anger, towards shutting a series of doors and withdrawing. Instead, wounded in spirit, she

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• A Eucharistic Prayer

  As a seminarian, I was privileged one summer to take a course from the renowned liturgist, Godfrey Diekmann. This was back in those heady days shortly after Vatican II when

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• More Than a House or a Place

  Home is more than a house or a place on a map. It’s a place in the heart, the place where you most want to be at the end of

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• Losing the Song in the Singer

  Often when listening to someone singing live or on television, I close my eyes to try to hear the song so as not to let the singer’s performance get in

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• The Binding Power of Hatred

  Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. We know this works for love. Does it also

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• Rich Kids Growing Up Without Money – or Understanding

  Gloria Steinem once confessed that, while never having been overweight, she has always been concerned about her weight because the genes she inherited from her parents predisposed her in that

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• A Saint for Our Time

  It is not enough today to be merely a saint; we must have a saintliness demanded by the present moment. Simone Weil wrote that, and she is right. We need

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• The Eyes of Love

  Imagine a young couple intoxicated with each other in the early stages of love. Imagine a religious neophyte in love with God, praying ecstatically. Imagine an idealistic young person working

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• Our Heart is Stronger than our Wounds

  Ten years before his death in 1996, Henri Nouwen was beset by a depression that nearly broke him. While in treatment, he wrote a very powerful book, The Inner Voice

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