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God’s Inexhaustibility
Many of us, I am sure, have been inspired by the movie, Of Gods and Men, which tells the story of a group of Trappist monks who, after making a painful decision
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On Reading Difficult Passages in Scripture
A colleague of mine shares this story: Recently, after presiding a Eucharist, a woman from the congregation came up to him with this comment: “What a horrible scripture reading today!
https://ronrolheiser.com/on-reading-difficult-passages-in-scripture/
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A Shirt of Flame
They say that the book you most need to read finds you when you most need to read it. I’ve had that experience many times, most recently with Heather King’s
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The Kiss of God on the Soul
What is the real root of human loneliness? A flaw within our make-up? Inadequacy and sin? Or, does Augustine’s famous line, You have made us for yourself, Lord, and our hearts are
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On Bowing and Raising Our Heads
At end of every Roman Catholic liturgy, there is an invitation given to the people to receive a blessing. That invitation is worded this way: Bow your heads and pray for
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Forever Being Ahead Of Our Souls
Sometimes nothing is as helpful as a good metaphor. In his book, The God Instinct, Tom Stella shares this story: A number of men who made their living as porters were hired
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Only in Silence
The Belgian spiritual writer, Bieke Vandekerckhove, comes by her wisdom honestly. She didn’t learn what she shares from a book or even primarily from the good example of others. She
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My Top Books for 2015
Taste, as St. Augustine said some 1700 years ago, is subjective. That should be acknowledged upfront whenever someone recommends a reading list. In my case, I need to state too
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The Meaning of Christmas – Connecting the Dots between the Crib and the Cross
Christmas 2015 The Gospel stories about the birth of Jesus are not a simple retelling of the events that took place then, at the stable in Bethlehem. In his commentaries
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Sex and Our Culture
No generation in history, I suspect, has ever experienced as much change as we have experienced in the past sixty years. That change is not just in the areas of