Four years ago, I wrote something that still rings true today: Grace grows as we notice good fruit in ourselves and others.
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The Doorway of One Thing
In a world that scatters our attention and mocks tenderness, Edith Stein gives us a model for living. She chose one thing—and made it her door to God.
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“A soul which does not practice the exercise of prayer is very like a paralyzed body which, though possessing feet and hands, makes no use of them.”
— St. Alphonsus Liguori
Rest In God’s Timing
The Gift of God’s Presence
I’m still basking in the glow of Pentecost Sunday, where we celebrated the descent of the Holy Spirit and the birth of the Church. Awe and wonder, which by the way is a gift of the Spirit, fill my heart and stoke the fire of love for God.
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Edith Stein once said the limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. Our exterior lives reflect the interior. Do you reflect the guiding hand of the Spirit?
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Today is Fig Monday arising from St. Mark’s observation that, on the day after Palm Sunday, Christ cursed a fruitless fig tree. It’s an odd story and yet it fits in with the shape of the liturgical year.
Continue reading “New Life Starts Now”Uncommon Behavior
It happens. Somebody speaks to me in a cutting tone.
So I want to cut right back. That’s the way life is.
But who says it has to be this way?
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Our life is made up of a series of moments, each of them, unique, and none of which will ever come again.
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The gospel always invites us to a deeper level. In the parable of the fig tree the owner cursed because it bore no fruit (Luke 13:1-9). On a deeper level, we might notice that the Lord expects us to bear spiritual fruit.
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Smitten With Goodness 