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On Not Locking Our Doors
In his book The Secret, Rene Fumoleau has a poem entitled Sins. Fumoleau, who was a missionary priest with the Dene People in Northern Canada, once asked a group of
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Sacred Permission to Feel Human
It is normal to feel restless as a child, lonely as a teenager, and frustrated by lack of intimacy as an adult; after all we live with insatiable desires of
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Some Secrets Worth Knowing
Monks have secrets worth knowing, and these can be invaluable when a coronavirus pandemic is forcing millions of us to live like monks. Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, millions of
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Deeper Things Under the Surface
Imagine this. You are the dutiful daughter or son and your mother is widowed and living in an assisted living facility. You happen to be living close by while your
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Praying When We Don’t Know How
He taught us how to pray while not knowing how to pray. That’s a comment sometimes made about Henri Nouwen. It seems almost contradictory to say that. How can someone
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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,
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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