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The Feast of the Friends of God & the Beatitudinal Life

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TODAY is the Feast of All Saints—those persons theologian Elizabeth Johnson calls "the friends of God." It is a day to re-member ourselves to those who have gone before us marked with the sign of faith, hope, and love. We call to mind and heart Read more [...]

THE DREAM TEAM: My Starting Five ~ 1. Love

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Suppose your spiritual life was a basketball team. Who would be your starting five? Let us love not in word or speech but in deed and truth. ~ 1 John 3:18 I really only love God as much as I love the person I love least. ~ Dorothy Day Sports enthusiasts Read more [...]

WHEN Will We Ever Learn? A Lament for When Mothers Are Sending Their Children to School with Their Blood Type Pinned to Their Sweaters

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WHEN will we learn the lesson Chief Sealth taught that the earth does not belong to us but we belong to the earth? Kyrie eleison WHEN will we come to know that we are a part of the earth not apart from the earth and understand that—as the Read more [...]

A Word to the Wise ~ Integrity / Part 4

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Integrity    [ in–teg–ri-tee ] Part 4, The righteous walk in integrity— happy are the children who follow them. ~ Proverbs 20:7 Cease to do evil. Learn to do good. Make justice your home forever. ~ Isaiah 1:16 If the main arbiter for Read more [...]

Reverence: An Offering of Love – Part 3/4

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~ continued from yesterday (since this is posted in four installments and written as a conversation, you may want to hit “Previous” and read 1/4 and 2/4 or the last paragraph or two of the preceding post to get the context and flow) Reverence Read more [...]

Reverence: An Offering of Love – Part 2/4

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~ continued from yesterday (since this is written as a conversation, you may want to hit "previous" and read the last paragraph or two) When we walk on the earth with reverence, beauty will decide to trust us. ~ John O'Donohue Authentic faith leads Read more [...]

Brother Weeps on Life as Preparation for the Great Giveaway

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The text was the Gospel of John, chapter 12, verse 24. The words were those of Jesus. A foreshadowing of his fate. His fate not being some final, static state, feeble as nothing and dead as a cross nail, but transformed, alive, vivacious, and bearing Read more [...]

Choosing to Sow Seeds of Love

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Today's Life Line is: Christian spirituality involves the conscious, intentional, immediate, and ongoing choice to incarnate love in the face of our own contingency and certain, imminent death. In other words, in the full awareness of the fragility Read more [...]