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Sensitivity and Suffering
Daniel Berrigan, in one of his famous quips, once wrote: Before you get serious about Jesus, first consider carefully how good you are going to look on wood! In saying this,
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Ordinary Goodness and Our Spiritual Journey
The spirituality writer, Tom Stella, tells a story about three monks at prayer in their monastery chapel. The first monk imagines himself being carried up to heaven by the angels.
https://ronrolheiser.com/ordinary-goodness-and-our-spiritual-journey/
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Faith and Fear
A common soldier dies without fear, yet Jesus died afraid. Iris Murdoch wrote this and that truth can be somewhat disconcerting. Why? If someone dies with deep faith, shouldn’t he
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Youth Today – Who are They Really?
A seminarian I know recently went to a party on a Friday evening at a local university campus. The group was a crowd of young, college students and when he
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The Ten Commandments of Mercy
Among the Ten Commandments, one begins with the word “remember”: Remember to keep holy the Sabbath day”. It reminds us to recall something we already know. There are commandments of mercy written
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Daniel Berrigan – RIP
Before you get serious about Jesus, first consider how good you’re going to look on wood! Daniel Berrigan wrote those words and they express a lot about who he was and
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Marking an Anniversary
What we cease to celebrate we will soon cease to cherish. This year, 2016, marks the 200th anniversary of the founding of the religious congregation to which I belong, The Missionary Oblates
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Loyalty and Patriotism Revisited
In a recent article in America magazine, Grant Kaplan, commenting on the challenge of the resurrection, makes this comment: “Unlike previous communities in which the bond among members forges itself through those it
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Love – A Projection and a Reality
The famed Jungian writer, Robert Johnson, makes this observation about falling in love: “To fall in love is to project the most noble and infinitely valuable part of one’s being
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The Power of Prayer and Ritual inside our Helplessness
In the movie based upon Jane Austen’s classic novel, Sense and Sensibility, there’s a very poignant scene where one of her young heroines, suffering from acute pneumonia, is lying in bed
https://ronrolheiser.com/the-power-of-prayer-and-ritual-inside-our-helplessness/