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Useless Murmuring And Sandy Hook Elementary School
Why this tumult among nations, among peoples this useless murmuring? They arise, the kings of the earth, princes plot against the Lord and his Annointed. These are the first 4 lines of psalm 2, words I...
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Gravity, The Movie
Eerily reminiscent of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 A Space Odyssey, absent Hal, Gravity places two American astronauts alone in the vast, black, void of outer space. I saw the movie last week...
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Our Battles Are Many
Our battles are many Our battles are many. Strange title for an article? Perhaps, but fitting to my life both before and after I found faith. Years ago, I walked into a southwestern boutique store not...
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CS Lewis and Karl Rahner
CS Lewis and Rahner (portrait of Karl Rahner by nephew Christoph Cremer CS Lewis and Karl Rahner Most likely they never met. But the atheist turned Anglican Christian CS Lewis and the Roman Catholic...
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The Woman With The Alabaster Jar And The Pharisee: Surprised by Grace
Surprised by grace Surprised by Grace Now and then, I am surprised by grace; that phrase is used a lot by Christian writers weakly attempting to convey what Paul describes as living and active and...
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The Contradictions Of Sin And Mercy
Contradictions of sin and mercy Contradictions of sin and mercy There are times when an essay from the past feels fitting. This is one of those times. Mostly because there is one man who better...
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Not A Hair On Your Head
Not a hair on your head Not a hair on your head was originally written in late 2013. I am reposting it for two reasons: It feels eerily even more relevant in October, 2019 as a beleaguered Israel...
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Leave, Herod Wants to Kill You-Constipated Grace
Leave, Herod wants to kill you. In the Christian liturgy for the thirty-first of October, some of the Pharisees approach Jesus to tell him to leave Jerusalem …”Leave, Herod wants to kill you.” “Go and...
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She Was Found With Child
She was found with child Mary was found with child Now the generation of Christ was in this way. When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child, of...
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Wonder: It’s Essential Place in Our Hearts
Wonder: It’s essential place in our hearts There was a time when I had this memorized, the words represented truth to my 20 something atheist’s heart, immersed and lost in the sea of the thoughts of...
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Stability
stability Stability: It’s an interesting noun- the meaning of which became radically different for me once I became a Benedictine Oblate. Many lifetimes ago, I used it to refer to critically ill...
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Conversions: Is Coronavirus An Opportunity?
Conversion on the way to Damascas Caravaggio Conversions: Is Coronavirus an opportunity? Huh? This statement may evoke eye-rolls, grimaces or frowns and maybe whole-hearted agreement with a long ago...
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Fear And Faith Intertwine
Fear and faith Intertwine Fear and faith Intertwine. The two seem to coexist. Even before His birth, Jesus galvanized anxiety- in His virginal mother and just and righteous adoptive father. The...
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Louis Pranzini and the Laborers: Lesson from St. Therese
Photo from Captured and Exposed Louis Pranzini and the Laborers Today, October 1st, is the feast day of The Little Flower, St. Therese of Lisieux, one of only thirty-six saints to be declared a Doctor...
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Tiny Acts of Heroism
Superhero woman in flight. Tiny acts of heroism Tiny acts of heroism It didn’t take me very long to understand as a brand new Christian the tiny acts of heroism we Christians are required to commit...
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Our Real Poverty-Not Knowing What We Lack
Our Real Poverty-Not Knowing What We Lack Real Poverty-Not knowing what we lack. We hear the phrase a lot: “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.” And most of us are more or...
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The Culture of Lent: Ash Wednesday
The culture of Lent: Ash Wednesday The culture of Lent: Ash Wednesday Is Lent a culture? Really? When considering the word culture, we understand it signifies a cumulative deposit of knowledge,...
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The Real Spiritual Battle
Render illustration of “SPIRITUAL COMBAT” title on head silhouette with cloudy sky as a background. The Real Spiritual Battle We’re approaching Holy Week, the days of silence, reflection and...
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Death, Hope, Heaven: What Are We Here for Anyway?
Concept of the life after death. Death, Hope, Heaven, What are we here for, anyway? In my pre-Catholic ‘pagan’ years, I worried about death. Mostly because I feared standing before a God I did not...
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Wonder: It’s Essential Place in Our Hearts
Wonder: It’s essential place in our hearts There was a time when I had this memorized, the words represented truth to my 20 something atheist’s heart, immersed and lost in the sea of the thoughts of...
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