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An Earthy View of the Communion of Saints
In his autobiography Nikos Kazantzakis tells the story behind his famous book, Zorba the Greek. Zorba is partially fiction, partly history. After trying unsuccessfully to write a book on Nietzsche,
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To Live In The Light
Several years ago, I was approached by man who asked me to be his spiritual director. He was in his mid-forties and almost everything about him radiated a certain health.
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The Ten Major Faith Struggles Of Our Age
Sometimes the simple act of naming something can be immensely helpful. Before we can put a name on something we stand more helpless before its effects, not really knowing what’s
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Seeing Spring and Easter
In my mid-20s, I spent a year as a student at the University of San Francisco. I had just been ordained a priest and was finishing off a graduate degree
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A Stone’s Throw Away From Everybody
Truth finds us in different ways. Sometimes we learn what something means, not in a classroom but in a hospital. Several years ago, I was visiting a man dying of
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Holy And Unholy Fear
Not all fear is created equal, at least not religiously. There’s a fear that’s healthy and good, a sign of maturity and love. There’s also a fear that’s bad, that
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Searching for God Among Many Voices
We are surrounded by many voices. There’s rarely a moment within our waking lives that someone or something isn’t calling out to us and, even in our sleep, dreams and
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Sublimation And The Sublime
Celebration is a paradoxical thing, created by a dynamic interplay between anticipation and fulfillment, longing and inconsummation, the ordinary and the special, work and play. Life and love must be
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Consecrated by Circumstance and Need
We can lose our freedom for different reasons and, sometimes, for the best of reasons. Imagine this scenario: You are on your way to a restaurant to meet a friend
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Porous and Buffered Personalities
A friend of mine tells this story: As a young boy in the 1950s he was struck down with pneumonia. His family lived in a small town that had neither