When God Blog-Bombed Me

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Saturday, October 22, 2016

Please People, Always Bring your Toddlers to Confession with You

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I went to confession today. I think some of the silliest temptations that ever go through my interior strike me when I am considering or p...
Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Changing a Pharisee's Heart

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Today's gospel reading was this: After Jesus had spoken, a Pharisee invited him to dine at his home. He entered and reclined at ta...
Monday, September 19, 2016

Transcript: The Words We Speak and the Silences We Keep, Fr. Marc Foley, OCD

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October I posted notes that I had taken from a talk by Fr. Marc Foley, OCD given at the OCDS National Convention in Milwaukee. Today I decid...
Wednesday, August 17, 2016

A Pilgrimage Blog

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I hesitated to do this, but I have started a new blog. It will not replace this blog, or at least that's not my intention. If I sense it...
Sunday, May 29, 2016

One Massive Paradigm Shift

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Just today I was thinking about one of the most important paradigm shifts of my life. I believe it was in 2009 or 2010, which was a seaso...
Wednesday, May 04, 2016

Buy Gold

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For you say, ‘I am rich and affluent and have no need of anything,’ and yet do not realize that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, a...
Sunday, April 17, 2016

Lessons from the Mystics for Normal People

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Last weekend was the annual retreat for my Secular Carmelite community, and for the first time since I have been involved we had a Carmelite...
Thursday, April 14, 2016

What Lectors Might Learn from Good Storytellers

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In combing through a stack of books today, I happened to come across these paragraphs in an essay on attributes needed by a good storyteller...
Saturday, April 02, 2016

Oblation to Divine Mercy

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In recent years, I have learned about St. Therese's Act of Oblation to Merciful Love . In her day, of course, there was no Divine Mercy ...
Sunday, March 20, 2016

The Ardent Love of Jesus in Gethsemane

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Today at my Carmelite Seculars meeting, we used the following passage from the Passion narrative as the basis of our Lectio Divina meditatio...
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Wednesday, March 09, 2016

God is the Redeemer, Even of Scary Childhood Art

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The Lord has been doing some major excavations in me during Lent. And I realize it has been awhile since I have freely written about this ty...
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Tuesday, March 01, 2016

From The Heart

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This morning at Mass I was struck by hearing the gospel highlighted in a markedly different way than past hearings. Peter approached Jesu...
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Saturday, February 20, 2016

On Confession, by Fr.Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalene, OCD

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This is the best thing I have ever read about the Sacrament of Reconciliation. By Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalene, OCD, in Divine Intimacy...
Friday, February 19, 2016

Time to Stop Being a Baby

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I don't generally make big penitential plans for myself during Lent. It seems the Lord likes to introduce His own program for me, and fo...
Saturday, February 06, 2016

The Fourth Joyful Mystery: The Presentation in the Temple

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  Photo from this blog Now there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, awaiting the consola...
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