• The Positive Side of Melancholy

  Normally none of us like feeling sad, heavy, or depressed. Generally we prefer sunshine to darkness, lightheartedness to melancholy. That’s why, most of the time, we do everything we canto distract ourselves from melancholy, to

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• Looking for the One God Inside Our Denominational and Faith Divisions

  Christian de Cherge, the Trappist Abbott who was martyred in Algeria in 1996, was fond of sharing this story: He had a very close Muslim friend, Mohammed, and the two

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• The Importance of the Interior and Private

  We can never be challenged too strongly with regards to being committed to social justice. A key, non-negotiable, summons that comes from Jesus himself is precisely the challenge to reach

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• Understanding and Appreciating Our Differences

  It’s common for us to see God’s grace and blessing in what unites us. We naturally sense the presence of grace when, at our core, we feel a strong moral

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• My Top Ten Books for 2014

  The pressures of work and ministry, unfortunately, limit the time I have available to read as widely as I would like. Still, addicted as I am to books and knowing

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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.

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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,

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