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  • The Key to Peace
    August 6, 2019

    The Key to Peace

    When Moses stood on the mountain and gazed at the new world, he predicted that there would always be choices between life and death. The challenge is to choose life.  It is not accidental that Krister (Stendahl) chose young listeners...

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  • Who is my neighbor?
    August 1, 2019

    Who is my neighbor?

    There have been so many terrorist attacks in the world in the last few years. I recall the truck that was driven indiscriminately into a large group of people who were celebrating Bastille Day in Nice, France, on July 14, 2016....

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  • Resurrection and Transfiguration
    July 30, 2019

    Resurrection and Transfiguration

    It is difficult for us to visualize how our own self may become a Eucharistic, Christified body. Our eyes are not enough here, because they only know how to look, and not to see.  The Transfiguration of Jesus Christ offered...

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  • Anaphora
    July 23, 2019

    Anaphora

    For those familiar with literary and rhetorical devices, anaphora—the deliberate repetition of a word or phrase—is a familiar strategy, one that both assists textual coherence and draws uncommon attention to the repeated terms. One might recall profound examples of anaphora...

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  • Grieving: 6 Ways to Begin to Heal 
    July 17, 2019

    Grieving: 6 Ways to Begin to Heal 

    1 - reorientation: grieving as hurt, hurt as healing  Imagine yourself as physically wounded. What do you do? If you are wounded, you do not cover it up and pretend it doesn’t exist. If you are wounded, you open up...

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  • July Staff Picks
    July 3, 2019

    July Staff Picks

    1) Wounded in Spirit: Advent Art and Meditations by David Bannon.  Recommended by Lillian Miao, Director of Paraclete Press “So many of our books have such good content, but I'd have to say that David Bannon's Wounded in Spirit is one of...

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  • What is prayer?
    July 1, 2019

    What is prayer?

    Prayer is asking for things. Very true. This is indeed the basic meaning. ‘I pray you do this’ means ‘I beg you’, ‘I beseech you’.What may we ask for? We might ask for a bicycle or a pair of jeans or a...

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  • The Doorway to the Spiritual Life
    June 29, 2019

    The Doorway to the Spiritual Life

    The first time Jesus appears, in the first Gospel, the first instruction he gives is “Repent.”  From then on, it’s his most consistent message. In all times and every situation, his advice is to repent. Not just the scribes and...

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  • A Nightmare Laid Bare #ENDALZ
    June 26, 2019

    A Nightmare Laid Bare #ENDALZ

    In a life of wholeness we may face brokenness and endure woundedness, but our suffering will not be meaningless. Meaningless suffering is soul-destroying. —Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Mpho Tutu, Made for Goodness: And Why This Makes All the Difference From...

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