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February 2017

February 10, 2017

Uselessness: Where Suffering and Beauty Meet

I've never been good at beauty. Yes, of course I can in some sense understand...

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...

July 2016

July 06, 2016

St. Maria Goretti and the Forgiveness of Rapists

It is the feast of St. Maria Goretti, who on this day 114 years ago...

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 21, 2016

Contemplation and the Practice of Friendship: A Review of Love & Salt

And there in that land I encountered a strange race of people, to whom was...

February 2016

February 23, 2016

Tuesday Lenten Reflection II: Living With Others in Pain

In my prior Lenten post, I discussed Nouwen’s idea that the way to deal with loneliness...

January 2016

January 26, 2016

Our Hearts Are Deadly Until They Find Rest In You

The most perilous place for each of us is the desert within our own hearts;...

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 18, 2015

Suffering Divine Things

O Adonai, and leader of the House of Israel,who appeared to Moses in the fire...

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...