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Showing posts with label worship. Show all posts
Showing posts with label worship. Show all posts
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...
Monday, February 08, 2021

Ego and Conversion

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I'm probably not the only one. As I was sorting out adulthood, faith, and what it meant to hear God's call, I regularly got tripped ...
Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Singing, Vulnerability, and Conversion

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So, I mentioned in my catch-up post that I'm involved in ChristLife. I've been in several different roles, including administration,...
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Saturday, November 17, 2018

Is Anybody Thirsty for This?

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Would that all God's people were prophets! (Num. 11:29) Catholics who find it normal to invoke the Holy Spirit to activate spiritua...
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Saturday, July 07, 2018

The Brokenness of Jesus

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We hear it at every Mass He broke it and gave it to them, saying, "Take this, all of you, and eat of it, for this is my body......
Saturday, May 13, 2017

Pulling Down Strongholds

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There is a type of injury that happens in religious formation that can, so to speak, blow out the bridge between a person and the truth. As ...
Sunday, April 09, 2017

Life-Changing Holy Week

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Five years ago, I experienced a Holy Week that changed my life. If I had known at the time what lay ahead of me, I probably would have bolte...
Monday, January 02, 2017

What Just Happened Here?: Onething 2016 and the Catholic Ecumenical Track

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What I'm writing here is a spiritual first draft. That means that while thoughts and inspirations have passed through my heart and soul ...
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Sunday, July 19, 2015

Sunday is for Heaven

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In my mind, the Sunday or feast day celebration is about two things, or two sides of this coin: First, we unite ourselves as deeply as ...
Saturday, April 25, 2015

A god who loves me

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My life has been full of service lately, keeping me busy . More church music than I can shake a stick at. Add to that I've felt out of k...
Thursday, April 09, 2015

Easter Frustrations

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Perhaps because I am perennially optimistic, I think this is a good sign. Almost everywhere I look, everything I listen to within my Catholi...
Thursday, March 12, 2015

The Little Charismatic Way

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This is a thinking post, not a thought-out post. I'm writing so that I understand. Yesterday I posted about having finished the book ...
Sunday, January 25, 2015

How in the World Did I Get Here?

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Do you ever have one of those moments where reality flashes before you (in a good way) and you ask yourself "How in the world did I get...
Saturday, January 03, 2015

And This is Why I Love Epiphany

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God frequently seems to use the liturgy and liturgical feasts to teach me personal things. Sometimes the nature of how this works is that so...
Monday, December 22, 2014

The Redemption of Fantasy Addiction

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Here is another quote that struck me recently: "Just imagine what Mary was actually saying in the words, 'I am the handmaid of ...
Saturday, December 20, 2014

Loneliness and Christian Emptiness

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Earlier this week, I came across this quote which speaks volumes to me: God looked over the world for an empty heart -- but not a lonely...
Thursday, November 27, 2014

Graces, Math, Practice and Delight

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I'm not one given to sentimentality, particularly not about things like thankfulness on Thanksgiving. Reality is good, but I often find ...
Tuesday, October 21, 2014

God the Servant

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Jesus said to his disciples: “Gird your loins and light your lamps and be like servants who await their master’s return from a wedding, rea...
Tuesday, September 09, 2014

Detachment and the Prophetic Vocation

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Several months ago I started to feel sort of spiritually stalked by the prophets of Scripture. Actually, truth be told, I've always felt...
Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Habitual Desperation

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Michael W. Smith's song Breathe was somewhat popular as a worship song in circles I moved in a few years ago. In the chorus the soul si...