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Showing posts with label Carmelite. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Carmelite. Show all posts
Saturday, January 11, 2025

Re-defining Safety

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This morning, Fr. A. preached about how, when you are going through a seriously trying time (like with his sister who just lost her son) you...
Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Seeking God, or Self-Harm?

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This morning as I settled into my prayer time, I picked up Divine Intimacy and flipped to the entry for Tuesday of the Second Week of Adven...
Friday, December 06, 2024

Depth of Identity

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Must articulate more thoughts provoked by yet another song.  Because I went down a Yannick Bisson rabbit hole a few months ago (because of ...
Wednesday, December 04, 2024

Better than a Hallelujah

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 Recently I was reminded again of the song Better than a Hallelujah, which Amy Grant recorded in 2010. From the first that I heard it, it...
Tuesday, October 01, 2024

The Urgency and Simplicity of Love

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It seems that the Lord enjoys inviting me to go spelunking with Him. I am one of those people who, if an invitation seems too good, like too...
Friday, September 20, 2024

Unpacking from SDFP, Intensive 1: Tribalism, Turnips, and the King

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I'm home from the first "intensive" of the Carmelite Spiritual Direction program, and it's time to start unpacking the exp...
Monday, July 29, 2024

Hiking, Love, and Transformation

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Eight years ago, I hiked in the Tatra mountains. Come to think of it, it was exactly this time of year I was there. The scenery was beautifu...
Thursday, July 11, 2024

Ponderings from Dear Master, Part One

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 I want to draw out and mull over two points that struck me as I was reading the other day. The book involved is Dear Master: Letters on Spi...
Sunday, January 14, 2024

Snipping off the Hock Lock

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Something happened this week that I can't describe. But I have a feeling I will look back on this as a deeply significant moment.  Words...
Saturday, December 09, 2023

Let Advent In

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Tomorrow I'm singing in a community choir Christmas concert, and today was our dress rehearsal. Somewhere along the line this morning I ...
Wednesday, November 22, 2023

Become Who You Are

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One of the reasons I write is to document the unfolding of life within me. Since childhood I have found that wrestling thoughts and feelings...
Monday, November 20, 2023

Greater Safety

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Back in July of this year, I wrote a post about a line in the Anima Christi that struck me. And around that time, I had entered a period of...
Thursday, June 15, 2023

Good Morning, and Welcome to my Anxiety

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Writing has always been a key way for me to access and relieve the pressure built up in me by feelings and thoughts that develop as I journe...
Tuesday, May 02, 2023

St. Joseph and the Desperation for Consolation

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I was chatting with a priest friend recently about praying the Liturgy of the Hours, and I found that something poked at me like when a meta...
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Tuesday, August 09, 2022

A Gift of Grace

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Six years ago today, something profound happened. In fact, it was so profound that six years later I know I'm only beginning to take it ...
Friday, April 29, 2022

Christian Identity; Christian Prayer

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 Here's what I'm hearing. Christian prayer is immersion into Christian identity. Christian identity is a spiritual reality, and come...