When God Blog-Bombed Me

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Showing posts with label Conversion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Conversion. Show all posts
Friday, August 08, 2025

Yes, I've Changed Parishes

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On the morning of the feast of St. Martha (and Mary, and Lazarus), a friend who regularly prays Morning Prayer with our group asked me about...
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Wednesday, July 09, 2025

You Can't Make God Happy

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I regularly take BIG breaks from posting on this blog, generally because I am processing my thoughts in writing elsewhere. But like a cat ou...
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...
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...
Friday, July 19, 2024

Ponderings from Dear Master, Part Two

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Fortunately I marked for myself the second piece that struck me as I was reading Ponderings from Dear Master , which I had intended to write...
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, February 04, 2024

Human Formation

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I've been thinking a lot lately about human formation -- the process of becoming whole, in terms of how one relates to oneself and to ot...
Saturday, January 06, 2024

A New (Leg of the) Journey

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 New years and new things may suggest each other, but I'm not one to choose some big newness project on January 1. Gosh, even writing th...
Sunday, December 10, 2023

Sorrow is Not Lord

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If I am to take in the lessons of the Seven Sorrows that I have been learning lately, here's the main thing: I need to hold both the re...
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 ...
Saturday, July 01, 2023

Full Range of (E-)motion

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One of the promises that Our Lady made to the visionary Marie Claire in Kibeho , regarding praying the Seven Sorrows rosary is this:  Those ...
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, February 21, 2023

Whether Paul or Apollos, or Charismatic or Latin

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In 1991, when I first responded to the Lord's call to enter the Catholic Church, I belonged to an interdenominational charismatic fellow...
Wednesday, February 08, 2023

Intercession, or "Praying to Saints"

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 In my conversations with non-Catholic Christians, I find that one of the most difficult doctrines to discuss is our relationship with other...
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...