• My Top Ten Books for 2020

  When St. Augustine said that “concerning taste there can be no dispute”, he was only partially right. Admittedly, taste always has a subjective aspect; but there’s always an objective component

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• Christmas as Shattering the Containers of Our Expectations

  Funny how God invariably shatters the containers of our expectations. We have a notion of how God should act and God ends up acting in a way that shatters all

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• The Illusion of Invulnerability

  Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. That’s a pious axiom that doesn’t always hold up. Sometimes the bad time comes and we don’t learn anything. Hopefully this present bad

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• From Saint Tarcisius to People Magazine: Our Evolution in Admiration and Imitation

  When I was a young boy growing up in a Catholic community, the catechesis of the time tried to inspire the hearts of the young with stories of martyrs, saints,

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• Our Wounds, Our Gifts, and Our Power to Heal Others

  Nearly fifty years ago Henri Nouwen wrote a book entitled, The Wounded Healer. Its reception established his reputation as unique spiritual mentor and he went on to become one of

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• An Invitation to Maturity – Weeping Over Jerusalem

  Maturity has various levels. Basic maturity is defined as having essentially outgrown the instinctual selfishness with which we were born so that our motivation and actions are now shaped by

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• Can The Ground Cry Out?

  Does the earth feel pain? Can it groan and cry out to God? Can the earth curse us for our crimes? It would seem so, and not just because ecologists,

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• The Law of Gravity and the Holy Spirit

  God is erotically charged and the world is achingly amorous, hence they caress each other in mutual attraction and filiation. Jewish philosopher Martin Buber made that assertion, and while it

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• Structure, Ritual, and Habit as Anchoring Love, Prayer and Service

  In his book, The Second Mountain David Brooks suggests that a key to sustaining fidelity in any vocation is to build a structure of behavior for those moments when love

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• What Kind of House Can You Build for Me?

  What’s right and what’s wrong? We fight a lot over moral issues, often with a self-assured righteousness. And mostly we fall into that same self-righteousness whenever we argue about sin.

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