Category: Family
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Dad, I need Your help!
So here I am, Lord. Talking to myself, practicing what I’d like to say to my priest about the on-going situation with my sister. I should probably be talking to you, Father. But we have talked, haven’t we, and I don’t feel much clearer about what to do. All this was prompted by this morning’s…
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Dear Sister
Dear Sister, Such strange times. Even when we are preempted from our normal activities and from our interactions with others, which have often left us with too little time for one another; Even now in our isolation of weather and COVID; Even now, the bridge that exists between us, built of parents and past history,…
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Life is very, very good. Life with God in charge is….heavenly.
It has been so long since I’ve written substantively here…so long since we’ve talked…that it’s hard to know where to start. And, isn’t this always the way where there’s separation, disconnection, distance? We lose our place. We miss important events in one anothers’ lives. We fall out of touch. The “project,” I’ll call it, was…
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Our Father comforts and encourages even during times of deprivation
Merton writes that even though contemplation and sanctity are found through deprivation, most of us so fear fully relying on God that we end up depriving ourselves of the experience. He says: The prospect of this wilderness is something that so appalls most men that they refuse to enter upon its burning sands and travel…
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Funeral Friday for Philip Seymour Hoffman | National Catholic Reporter
Funeral Friday for Philip Seymour Hoffman | National Catholic Reporter. RIP Phil Hoffman and peace to Fr. James Martin.
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Reflecting God’s Divinity
I’ve tried to find words to express the tremendous tsunami of emotions and joy that I have experienced since reading Fr. Martin’s book “The Jesuit’s Guide to (Almost) Everything,” earlier last year. Similar to one’s experience of God, I think, my comprehension of its significance has taken — will take — time to fully appreciate.…
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Meditation 9 – What we ask in faith, God provides
Do you dread something painful? Is there in your soul a vague fear, which seems unreasonable, and yet torments you? Trust fully in My providence. I am here, I see everything; I will not leave you. I’m such a weenie! I’m still concerned about that dinner party. It’s tomorrow night and it has me losing…
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Meditation 6 – Call us to You, Father
And have you no thoughts of zeal for Me? Are you not anxious to do a little good for the souls of your friends, for those whom you love, and who, perhaps, forget Me? Tell Me who interests you, what motives urge you, what means you wish to take. In reflecting on this sixth meditation…
Walking With My Brother 