Something to think about | Prayer is time taken out of the linear journey of our days, and it is also our most profound reality. When we pray, we move inward to our God center. Then we move out again. . . to our situation in the world. This movement into the center and out [...]
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Something to think about | Discernment presupposes an ability to reflect on the ordinary events of one’s life, a habit of personal prayer, self-knowledge, knowledge of one’s deepest desires and openness to God’s direction and guidance. Discernment is a prayerful “pondering” or “mulling over” the choices a person wishes to consider. In his discernment, the [...]
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It is a day of joy: it is good to be joyful—it is wrong to be otherwise. . . .“God has not appointed us unto wrath, but to obtain salvation through Our Lord Jesus Christ, Who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him.” Let us seek the [...]
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Something to think about | The infinite vistas of the Kingdom of God that open up before man are not presented as ways for man to escape his lot, but rather they represent new dimensions for human life and new opportunities for the exercise of duty. The divine grace which Christ promises to those who [...]
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Something to think about | The words of Jesus on prayer sound so simple: “Ask and you shall receive.” But behind that simple formula lies a whole way of life: a life of faith, of forgiveness of our brother, of generosity with those in need, of unworldliness, of total trusting in and dependence upon God. [...]
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Something to think about | One of the most serious wounds that have been inflicted on the Church as a whole and on its individual members is false supernaturalism. All too often “God” has been found a very convenient alibi. Men have shrunk from their ordinary this-world responsibilities, either by a literal flight from them [...]
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Something to think about | When a man feels condemned, his creativity and his power to love, his joy in life as well as his sense of wholeness are blocked. When that same man suddenly or gradually understands that he is not rejected or condemned but accepted and loved by another on whom he depends, [...]
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Something to think about | The Eucharist is the center of my life. I cannot imagine a day without the celebration of the Eucharistic Sacrifice. But it is evident that there is a relationship with the Gospels. We find in the Gospels a realistic, historical image of Jesus as he lived in Palestine. And in [...]
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Something to think about | We must look for experience of the Spirit and for grace in the contemplation of our own lives. But not so that we can say, “That’s him. Now I know where the Spirit blows.” That is not how the Spirit is discerned. He cannot be found by laying triumphant claim [...]
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Something to think about | I hold that every poor man, every vagrant, every beggar is Christ carrying his cross. And as Christ, we must love and help him. We must treat him as a brother, a human being like ourselves. If we were to start a campaign of love for the poor and homeless, [...]
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