When God Blog-Bombed Me

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Saturday, May 31, 2014

Sweet, Comforting, Refreshing Guest

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Today's bit of the Pentecost Sequence to consider: You of all comforters best You the soul's most welcome guest Sweet refresh...
Friday, May 30, 2014

Come, O Father of the Poor

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Come, O Holy Spirit, come! And from your celestial home/Shed a ray of light divine In these nine days before Pentecost, we pray for the...
Wednesday, May 14, 2014

St. Teresa of Avila and the Problem of Nobility

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In The Way of Perfection , St. Teresa of Avila addresses at length the need for her nuns to avoid all attachment to social rank and the sens...
Monday, May 12, 2014

When I Learned to Believe in a Personal God

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I've often said that there is something in my Christian testimony that will offend the theology of just about everyone. Blessed, then, a...
Monday, May 05, 2014

Stopping to Sing the Praises of St. John of the Cross

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I have been making extremely slow progress through the book John of the Cross for Today: The Ascent by Susan Muto. It has nothing to do...
Friday, May 02, 2014

A Labor of Love

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Recently some friends of my family were hit with a need that required a lot of physical labor to be done in a short time. So they and my kid...
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...
Wednesday, April 23, 2014

When Confirmation Received Me

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I was received into the Catholic Church and confirmed when I was 25 years old. Did infant baptism as a Lutheran, and spent five highly forma...
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Friday, April 18, 2014

Handing Over That Friendship

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A faithful friend is a sturdy shelter; / he who finds one finds a treasure. / A faithful friend is beyond price, no sum can balance his ...

Protestant vs Catholic Good Fridays

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For many years, Good Friday was a day of vague confusion for me. As a child and as a Lutheran (the two coincided for me) I felt that it was ...
Sunday, April 13, 2014

Looking Upon the Pierced One

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I have found that the most fitting way for me to do an examination of conscience is to look at or picture in my mind a crucifix. Except t...
Wednesday, April 09, 2014

Relationship With... Whom?

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Last week I was in a setting where I was listening to a person, though we were not exactly in a conversation. And this person to whom I was ...
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Saturday, March 29, 2014

The Lent that Would Not End

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If you have kids, you might have had the, uh, pleasure of learning this song: (If you really want punishment, you can go here and liste...
Friday, March 28, 2014

When Understanding is Folly

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For a long time I've had the phrase "I write, therefore I understand" in the header of this blog. The title is all about that ...
Wednesday, March 26, 2014

"I Have Come not to Abolish but to Fulfill"

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"Do not think that I have come to abolish the law and the prophets. I have come, not to abolish them, but to fulfill them." (Mt. 5...