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June 2016

June 29, 2016

Curing the Hungry, Feeding the Sick: Caring For Your Mentally Ill Friends, Part II

Let us imagine a feast. And let us imagine someone too mentally ill to...

April 2016

April 14, 2016

Teach Us To Pray…But Be Gentle: Prayer and Mental Illness

So, God said to Job, everything’s over and you need to pray for your friends...

April 11, 2016

Why I Need Contemplative Spirituality

In his eminently affable and uncontroversial way, theologian Stanley Hauerwas once suggested he’s a...

March 2016

March 29, 2016

He is Not Here – He is Risen: Existential Encounters with the Emptiness of the Tomb

“He is not here.” So were their words when I came upon the tomb and...

February 2016

February 16, 2016

Reaching Out Amidst OCD and Depression: Tuesday Lenten Reflection I

I have comorbid depression and obssessive compulsive disorder. I write this, not as a bid...

January 2016

January 18, 2016

Lessons From Brother Ass on a Blue Monday

“Variable and therefore miserable condition of man; this minute, I was well, and am ill,...

December 2015

December 31, 2015

On the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God

How best to let Him grow in us, we learn From you, Theotokos, mother of...

December 20, 2015

Rattling the Secret Key of Salvation

O Key of David and sceptre of the House of Israel; you open and no one...

December 16, 2015

The Light and the Darkness

In today's Mass readings we find this fascinating passage from Isaiah: I am the LORD,...

December 13, 2015

The Hard Sayings of Gaudete Sunday

Brothers and sisters: Rejoice in the Lord always. I shall say it again: rejoice! Your...