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Learn the Divine Office in Lent

Well, Day 1 of Lent was pretty rich. Got to lector at Mass for one of my favorite readings and psalms, which was neat. Got to spend more time at a doctor’s office than I wanted to for something so...

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Come, Pray the Luminous Mysteries with Me!

Aside from being aggravated by some minor, but continual, issues with my computer today, I’m feeling pretty peaceful about the election, in general. I have no idea who will win, although I suspect...

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Pillar of Cloud, Water of Life: All of a Healing Piece & Peace

For a little while longer, we are still in Christmas, but every day the mysteries of the season seem to wither a little, like the leaves of the poinsettias; the expectation of Advent seems far away,...

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God in the Balance; Loving Dark and Light

Regardless of our religion — whether we are Catholics or Evangelicals or Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist — the spiritual life challenges us to find balance. One of the reasons I was attracted to the...

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The Coin of God and of the World

Today’s Office of Readings from the beginning of a letter to the Magnesians by Saint Ignatius of Antioch, bishop and martyr: “All things have an end, and two things, life and death, are side by side...

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You have here no lasting city…not even a lasting nation.

In today’s Office of Readings (my favorite Office, go figure) comes this marvelously relevant, important and instructive excerpt from Thomas a’Kempis’ classic, The Imitation of Christ: Turn to the Lord...

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Grousing at God, Barking at Saints, and a Constant Renewal

Not to keep talking about about me, me, me, but here I go: In my column at The Catholic Answer magazine, I relate a little of what a crank I become when I am stressed out: Recently, I began the day...

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The Aurora Shooter: Image of Loss – UPDATED

We all know his name, but I prefer not to use it in a public forum, mostly because his name should not be better known than the names of his victims. I will use it, though, in private prayer. Social...

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O Sapientia! O Wisdom! Antiphonal Healing

Tonight, it begins; at Vespers, before the Magnificat, we take up the gorgeous “O”Antiphons. We chant them in full solemnity, with their wandering air, their voice of deep longing. We have been...

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Morning Prayer so often aligns with the headlines…

Today’s reading (slightly enlarged) from Morning Prayer, Isaiah 53:11-12 “Because of his anguish he shall see the light; because of his knowledge he shall be content; My servant, the just one, shall...

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