When God Blog-Bombed Me

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Wednesday, October 29, 2014

What Prayer Isn't About

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Ask ten different people; get ten different answers. Actually, it wouldn't even require that. All I would need is to dip into ten differ...
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...
Wednesday, October 15, 2014

A Feast Day Gift (Or, When Things Make Sense)

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Today is the feast of St. Teresa of Avila, reformer of the Carmelites, my spiritual mother, mi Madre . I use that term with deep affection a...
Sunday, October 05, 2014

Why Praise Music Fails

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It's been almost two months since I went on this walking pilgrimage , but today a certain facet of it is standing out to me in big relie...
Tuesday, September 30, 2014

St Thérèse and the Terrifying Joy of Vulnerability

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It is no secret that I was a devout non-fan of St. Thérèse for many of my Catholic years. Everyone was all "St. Thérèse this" and ...
Friday, September 19, 2014

The Gift of Vulnerability

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"[God] will not find us at the center of our certainties. That is not where the Lord looks. He will find us on the margi...
Monday, September 15, 2014

My Word in Silence: Apostolic Love

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This last weekend I was on a silent retreat whose theme was mercy. This was a genuine experience of God's grace for everyone I spoke wit...
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...
Saturday, August 23, 2014

The Unnatural Attachment to Chaos

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Today is the feast of St. Rose of Lima. This morning I read this from her writings: Let all men know that grace comes after tribulation. ...
Monday, August 11, 2014

Reflections on the Walking Pilgrimage to Czestochowa

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Yesterday my two kids and I returned from a four day walking pilgrimage from Great Meadows, NJ to the National Shrine of Our Lady of Czesto...
Thursday, July 31, 2014

Fasting and Humility

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I really could have said that the three themes for fasting this week (instead of gratitude, right submission of authority and humility) are ...
Wednesday, July 30, 2014

A Few Thoughts on Fasting and Parental Authoriity

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The second thing on my mind about Friday's day of fasting is this matter of a check-up, a little moment of reckoning, where my handling ...
Tuesday, July 29, 2014

A Few Thoughts about Fasting and Gratitude

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Some Encounter. parents are embarking on a day of prayer and fasting for our families, and in light of that I'm sharing a few thoughts ...
Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Elijah and the Widow

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The daily Mass readings currently feature the prophet Elijah, legendary founder of the Carmelite order and my favorite Old Testament figure....
Sunday, June 08, 2014

Meditations on the Pentecost Sequence

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I'm putting into one place my novena's worth of meditations I wrote on the Pentecost sequence, Veni Sancte Spiritus. Here are the li...