causality, miracle, creation, God

Get Out of That Rut … Now

Are you feeling weighed down, defeated, or just in a rut? We can have spiritual, physical and circumstantial ruts in our lives, and we must

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sloth

Listen This Lent

The Lenten season is the perfect time to listen. Listening to God in the silence and listening to others around us helps us to be

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butterfly emerges

Living Alms

The world is a sorrowful place. This Lent we’re beset with news of war and suffering in Ukraine. The news – so heartbreaking and overwhelming

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Pentecost, Holy Ghost

From Loving to Union

I was hardly out of my pram when World War II began, so I do not have any war wounds to brag about. But I

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wilderness, isolation, alone, balance, mountains

Half of a Mustard Seed

The Verses Go… He [Jesus] said to them, “Because of your little faith. Amen, I say to you, if you have faith the size of

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Courage and the Ukrainian People

The classical four cardinal virtues are prudence, justice, courage, and temperance. It has often been claimed that the lynchpin of these virtues is justice. Justice

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war

Lent in the Holy Land

Ash Wednesday of 2017 fell on March 1.  On March 7, my wife and I were on a plane from Newark, New Jersey to Tel

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liberalism, violence, threats

Stand Inside the Fire

Part One of the Catechism explains each phrase of the Creed we recite at mass. Every week we announce, “I believe in the Holy Spirit”,

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Culture Shock, conversion

A Lesson from Easter

In the world’s broad field of battle, in the bivouac of life, be not like dumb driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife! Trust

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