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Monks have secrets worth knowing, and these can be invaluable when a coronavirus pandemic is forcing millions of us to…
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Imagine this. You are the dutiful daughter or son and your mother is widowed and living in an assisted living…
John Updike, after recovering from a serious illness, wrote a poem he called, Fever. It ends this way: But it…
We all fear judgment. We fear being seen with all that’s inside us, some of which we don’t want exposed…
Like many others, I was deeply distressed to learn of the recent revelations concerning Jean Vanier. He was a person…
Most of us have heard of St. Therese of Lisieux, a French mystic who died at age 24 in 1897…
There’s a Latin axiom which argues that there’s no accounting for taste, de gustibus non est disputandum. I reference it as…
We quite naturally tend to think of the word “Christ” as Jesus’ second name. We think of the name “Jesus…
It’s no secret that today we’re witnessing a massive decline in church attendance and, seemingly, a parallel loss of interest…
According to Isaac the Syrian, a famous 7th Century bishop and theologian, a person who’s genuinely humble gives off a…
