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Being Ready for Christmas
Many of us arrive at Christmas tired, running, distracted, and already fatigued with the lights, songs, and celebrations of Christmas. Advent is meant to be a time of preparation for
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The Visitation – Revisited
We are all familiar with the biblical story of the Visitation. It happens at the beginning of Luke’s Gospel. Mary and her cousin, Elizabeth, both pregnant, meet. One is carrying
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Honoring Talent and Grace – Jean Beliveau RIP
For those of you who aren’t Canadian, perhaps this name might not mean much, but, this past week, Canada lost one of its great cultural icons, Jean Beliveau, a famed athlete.
https://ronrolheiser.com/honoring-talent-and-grace-jean-beliveau-rip/
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Self-Sacrifice and the Eucharist
In 1996, Muslim extremists martyred nearly an entire community of Trappist monks in Atlas, Algeria. Many of us, thanks to the movie, Of Gods and Men, are familiar with their
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Two Churches, Two Sacred Places, Two Struggles
God has given us two churches, one found is everywhere and the other is found at select places. Some of us prefer one of these and struggle with the other,
https://ronrolheiser.com/two-churches-two-sacred-places-two-struggles/
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Less People Are Going to Church – Whom to Blame?
It’s no secret that today there’s been a massive drop-off in church attendance. Moreover that drop-off in church-going is not paralleled by the same widespread growth in atheism and agnosticism.
https://ronrolheiser.com/less-people-are-going-to-church-whom-to-blame/
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Spiritual Warfare
Spiritual literature has always highlighted the primordial struggle between good and evil, and this has generally been conceived of as a war, a spiritual battle. Thus, as Christians, we have
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Carrying Our Cross
Among Jesus’ many teachings we find this, rather harsh-sounding, invitation: Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow me. Whoever finds his
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Three Kinds of Spiritualities
All of us struggle, and we struggle in three ways. First, sometimes we struggle simply to maintain ourselves, to stay healthy and stable, to stay normal, to not fall apart,
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The Goddess of Chastity
Ancient Greece expressed much of its psychological and spiritual wisdom inside their myths. They didn’t intend these to be taken literally or as historical, but as metaphor and as an