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Imagine this. You are the dutiful daughter or son and your mother is widowed and living in an assisted living…
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He taught us how to pray while not knowing how to pray. That’s a comment sometimes made about Henri Nouwen. It…
Saint Eugene de Mazenod, the founder of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, the Religious Congregation to which I belong,…
The movie Million Dollar Baby tells the story of a young woman who becomes a professional boxer. Young, strong, and physically very…
Where’s the fairness in life? Why are some people so undeservedly blessed in this world while others are seemingly cursed?…
At the risk of being simplistic, I want to say something about prayer in a very simple way. While doing…
I grew up in a close family and one of hardest things I ever did was to leave home and…
Discernment isn’t an easy thing. Take this dilemma: When we find ourselves in a situation that’s causing us deep interior…
There is such a thing as a good death, a clean one, a death that, however sad, leaves behind a…
John Updike, after recovering from a serious illness, wrote a poem he called, Fever. It ends this way: But it…
