Are you addicted to busyness?
“YOU are anxious and worried about MANY things.”
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The Opening To Life
Are you “opened” to the gifts of your baptism? In reading the beginning of the treatise On the Mysteries by Saint Ambrose, bishop, I’m encouraged by the instruction and wisdom from those who have walked this journey before us. We can be trained by walking the path forged by our forefathers:
Continue reading “The Opening To Life”Our Inner Thoughts
I have always been drawn to the Presentation in the life of Jesus. This is where Mary and Joseph take the infant Jesus to the Temple to present him to God. It is one of the joyful mysteries of the Rosary, demonstrating the fruit of obedience.
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Much of scripture emphasizes the vast difference between God’s wisdom and human understanding, highlighting His sovereignty and the limits of human knowledge. This plays out in our world where we know God yet don’t understand. What we do know is through Christ we have true intimacy and that we are loved beyond the ends of the earth.
Continue reading “God Sees All That Is”Lost And Found
There is nothing like being at our home in the forest that reconnects me with God. Studies show that leaving the city and grounding ourselves in nature can do wonders for our mental health.
Continue reading “Lost And Found”Deeply Loved
“You change your life by changing your heart.”— St. Benedict of Nursia
Continue reading “Deeply Loved”Be You
If you are reading this, you have another day to live and be the best version of yourself. Its really very simple to know God’s will for each and every one of us. We are to love God with all our being and love each other.
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In today’s gospel we hear the greatest commandment: “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your being, with all your strength, and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” If we only have the bandwidth to do one thing in a day, this needs to be our highest priority. We were made to love God.
Continue reading “Made to Love God”Losing What Binds Us
Richard Rohr states that if the universal addiction is to our own pattern of thinking-which is invariably dualistic-the primary spiritual path must be some form of contemplative practice. We must somehow lose our limited perspective which binds us up.
Continue reading “Losing What Binds Us”A Rule of Life
Fifteen hundred years ago, Benedict of Nursia came out of his hermit’s cave and founded a monastery in Italy on the rocky crag of Monte Cassino. There he wrote the Rule that laid the cornerstone for monastic religious orders ever after. Benedict’s monastic spirit and discipline so revolutionized a newly Christianized Europe that there is little wonder that his namesake, Pope Benedict XVI, applauded Benedict’s title Patron of Europe, bestowed on the saint in 1964.
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