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Our Misconceptions about Suicide
Sometimes things need to be said, and said, and said, until they don’t need to be said any more. Margaret Atwood wrote that and its truth is the reason why,
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Bread and Wine
Bread and wine are ambiguous, both in life and in the Eucharist. On the one hand, bread is perhaps our primary symbol for food, health, nourishment, and community: Give us
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Our Innate Pathological Complexity
In her novel, A Map of Glass, Canadian novelist, Jane Urquhart, tells the story of an aging woman who recalls how, as a little girl, she used to steal her
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Some Guidelines for Service
To try to serve others is to be caught up in many tensions, some that beset from without and others that beset from within. How can we remain energized, effective,
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Father’s Day
Father’s Day. What do you celebrate if you lost your father a long time ago? My father died 38 years ago, I was twenty-two and just beginning to appreciate what
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Chastity And the Enchantment of Life
More than a generation ago, already before the sexual revolution, Nobel-prize winning novelist and philosopher, Albert Camus, had written: Chastity alone is connected with personal progress. There is a time
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Our Inner Garment
Many things divide us: language, race, ethnicity, gender, religion, politics, ideology, culture, personal history, temperament, private wounds, moral judgments. It is hard, in the face of all this, to see
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The Many Faces of the Eucharist
Christians argue a lot about the Eucharist. What does it mean? What should it be called? How often should it be celebrated? Who should be allowed to fully participate? There
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A Saint and Compassion Fatigue
There is a story told about Saint Vincent de Paul. Perhaps it’s partly myth, but its challenge is real nonetheless. Vincent once gave an instruction to his religious community that
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The Secret of a Monk’s Cell
Monks have secrets worth knowing, though sometimes the value of a certain secret isn’t immediately evident. One such secret concerns the monk’s cell and the importance that classical spiritual writers