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Living out a Vocation
What does it mean to have a vocation? The term gets batted around both in religious and secular circles and everyone assumes its meaning is clear. Is it? What’s a
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Faith and Dying
We tend to nurse a certain naiveté about what faith means in the face of death. The common notion among us as Christians is that if someone has a genuine
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The Frustrating Struggle for Humility
It’s hard to be humble, not because we don’t have more than enough deficiencies to merit humility, but rather because there’s crafty mechanism inside of us that normally doesn’t let
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The Grace within Passivity
A friend of mine shares this story. She grew up with five siblings and an alcoholic father. The effect of her father’s alcoholism was devastating on her family. Here’s how
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Grieving as a Spiritual Exercise
In a remarkable book, The Inner Voice of Love, written while he was in a deep emotional depression, Henri Nouwen shares these words: “The great challenge is living your wounds
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The Arrival of Refugees, Old and New
The religious congregation to which I belong, the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, has had a long relationship with the indigenous peoples of North America. Admittedly it hasn’t always been
https://ronrolheiser.com/the-arrival-of-refugees-old-and-new/
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Creating and Holding Space for our Brokenness
Some years ago I went on a weekend retreat given by a woman who made no secret about the fact that not being able to have children constituted a deep
https://ronrolheiser.com/creating-and-holding-space-for-our-brokenness/
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Jesus Christ – The Person and the Mystery
We quite naturally tend to think of the word “Christ” as Jesus’ second name. We think of the name “Jesus Christ” like we think of names like “Susan Parker” or
https://ronrolheiser.com/jesus-christ-the-person-and-the-mystery/
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Some Counsels on Faith and Religion for our Present Generation
It’s no secret that today we’re witnessing a massive decline in church attendance and, seemingly, a parallel loss of interest in religion. The former mindset, within which we worried, sometimes
https://ronrolheiser.com/some-counsels-on-faith-and-religion-for-our-present-generation/
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The Scent of Humility
According to Isaac the Syrian, a famous 7th Century bishop and theologian, a person who’s genuinely humble gives off a certain scent that other people will sense and that even