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Our Deep Failure in Charity
Saint Eugene de Mazenod, the founder of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, the Religious Congregation to which I belong, left us with these last words as he lay dying:
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Dignity
The movie Million Dollar Baby tells the story of a young woman who becomes a professional boxer. Young, strong, and physically very attractive she captures your heart as, against all
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A Magnificent Defeat
Where’s the fairness in life? Why are some people so undeservedly blessed in this world while others are seemingly cursed? Why are craftiness, self-serving ambition, taking advantage of others, and
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Some Advice on Prayer from an Old Master
At the risk of being simplistic, I want to say something about prayer in a very simple way. While doing doctoral studies, I had a professor, an elderly Augustine priest,
https://ronrolheiser.com/some-advice-on-prayer-from-an-old-master/
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Faithful Friendship
I grew up in a close family and one of hardest things I ever did was to leave home and family at the age of seventeen to enter the novitiate
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Facing Our Tough Hours
Discernment isn’t an easy thing. Take this dilemma: When we find ourselves in a situation that’s causing us deep interior anguish, do we walk away, assuming that the presence of
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Leaving Peace Behind as Our Farewell Gift
There is such a thing as a good death, a clean one, a death that, however sad, leaves behind a sense of peace. I have been witness to it many
https://ronrolheiser.com/leaving-peace-behind-as-our-farewell-gift/
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Fever
John Updike, after recovering from a serious illness, wrote a poem he called, Fever. It ends this way: But it is a truth long known that some secrets are hidden
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God and the Principle of Non-Contradiction
It is funny where the lessons of our classrooms are sometimes understood. I studied philosophy when I was still a bit too young for it, a nineteen year-old studying the
https://ronrolheiser.com/god-and-the-principle-of-non-contradiction/
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Churches as Field Hospitals
Most of us are familiar with Pope Francis’ comment that today the church needs to be a field hospital. What’s implied here? First, that right now the church is not