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November 2016

November 19, 2016

Rescuing Small and Huddling Things from Adversarial Protectiveness

I can't remember precisely what his answer was, but it was not the enthusiastic one...

May 2016

May 20, 2016

Healing Prayer as Penance

“Spend 10 or 15 minutes praying for healing.” It doesn’t sound much like penance. Unless...

May 12, 2016

Redeeming Time With The Liturgical Hours

“Be very careful, then, how you live – not as unwise, but as wise, making...

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...

March 2016

March 22, 2016

Lenten Reflection VI on Henri Nouwen’s Reaching Out: Three Things You Need For Prayer

In the prior Lenten post on Henri Nouwen's Reaching Out, we finally reached what is both most fundamental...

March 15, 2016

Lenten Reflection V on Henri Nouwen’s Reaching Out: From Illusion to Prayer

In our journey through Henri Nouwen’s Reaching Out, we have discussed the transition from loneliness...

February 2016

February 01, 2016

Why Do Old Spiritual Texts Seem Boring?

Part of prayer is learning to pray with all other Christians – where two or...

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 22, 2015

Saintly Devotion as a Pathway to Encounter

Many of people I would call "Neo-Contemplatives" that I have met within Catholicism have...

December 14, 2015

Memorial of St. John of the Cross

“Would that men might come at last to see that it is quite impossible to...

December 09, 2015

An Invitation Into Wonder

“Wonder is involuntary praise.” English Poet, Edward Young, (1683-1765) Reflection: Whether we reflect on it or...