When God Blog-Bombed Me

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Sunday, October 18, 2015

The Words we Speak, and the Silences We Keep

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Over the last four days, I participated in the 2015 OCDS Congress in Milwaukee. I took copious notes, but now is the moment where I go back ...
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Sunday, October 11, 2015

Thoughts Before Bedtime...

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I'm stealing a few moments from my sleep to write about a dream I had last night. Somehow I was time-traveling to the era of the US Ci...
Saturday, August 29, 2015

Spiritual Violence and Ferocious Love

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At my last Carmelite formation small group meeting, I talked through a topic that has played a pretty big role in my spiritual development f...
Monday, August 10, 2015

The Importance of Being Human

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There's a lot of talk going around right now in the Catholic Church, because of Pope Francis and the general agenda of the Holy Spirit, ...
Thursday, July 23, 2015

I Do Not Permit a Woman to Teach or Have Authority

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I am not a Scripture scholar, although I have studied theology at the graduate level. So what I'm about to say is not the result of ...
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 ...
Sunday, May 17, 2015

Practical Christian Intercession, Part Two

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God our Father, make us joyful in the ascension of your Son Jesus Christ. May we follow him into the new creation, for his ascension is ...
Thursday, May 14, 2015

Practical Christian Intercession, Part One

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It doesn't take a deeply religious person to offer to say a prayer for someone. It is a common response to hearing of a tragedy, sudden ...
Wednesday, May 06, 2015

Divine Intimacy, and a Carmelite story

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Today, I cracked open my belated Christmas gift just recently in at the used book store for me: It was quite a moment. It look me bac...
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...
Monday, April 13, 2015

So, I Went on Retreat and Turned into a Baby

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Last weekend I went on retreat with about 50 other Secular Carmelites in western PA, among them, eight others from my own community. In a wa...
Sunday, April 12, 2015

Little People

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I was on retreat this weekend, and the retreat master closed the last conference with this poem. It perfectly sums up how we are called to ...
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...
Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Learning to Pray: Still, Yet, Again

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I am learning. I'm not exactly sure of the chicken-egg sequence involved, but I am learning that when I have a question for the Lord abo...
Monday, March 16, 2015

Dear Ms. Disappointed Catholic Blogger Woman

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I read this pos t earlier today about a woman's disappointment with belonging to an average parish, and how she found her solace in book...
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