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Coming to Peace with our Lack of Recognition
We crave few things as deeply as self-expression and recognition. We have an irrepressible need to express ourselves, be known, recognized, understood, and seen by others as unique, gifted, and
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My Top Ten Books For 2024
Full disclosure, I don’t read enough. A busy, pressured life affords me only small windows of time to read anything not directly related to my ministry. Nonetheless, I try to
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Christ’s Birth in Bethlehem – Soothing or Disturbing?
I’ve never been fully comfortable with some of my friends who send out Christmas cards with messages like: May the Peace of Christ Disturb You! Can’t we have one day a year
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Searching for a Womb to Birth a Messiah
“People are always impatient, but God is never in a hurry!” Nikos Kazantzakis wrote those words and they highlight an important truth. We need to be patient, infinitely patient, with
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From Saints to Celebrities: Our Evolution in Admiration and Imitation
When I was a young boy growing up in a Catholic community, the catechesis of the time tried to inspire the hearts of the young with stories of martyrs, saints,
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Vows We Don’t Choose
As a member of a religious order, the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, I chose to make four religious vows: poverty, chastity, obedience, and perseverance. I did this freely, with
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Heaven Isn’t the Same for Everyone
Daniel Berrigan once said: Before you get serious about Jesus, think carefully about how good you are going to look on wood! That’s a needed caution because Jesus warned us
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The Tower of Babel
The opening pages of the Bible offer us a series of stories set at the beginning of history which are meant to explain why the world today is as it
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Lighter Thoughts on a Heavy Subject
Some years ago, a friend was facing the birth of her first child. While happy that she was soon to be a mother, she confessed openly her fears about the
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Bread and Wine
At the Last Supper when Jesus instituted the Eucharist he chose to use two elements, bread and wine. The images are now so deeply ingrained in our consciousness that we