The Good Heart

“A genuinely good heart is a heart that is open and alight with understanding. It listens to the sorrows of the world. Our society is wrong to think that happiness depends on fulfilling one's own wants and desires. That is why our society is so miserable...” (Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, Into the Heart of Life, Snow Lion: 2011, Chapter 9 ‘Practicing the good heart’)

Monday, October 12, 2009

Cristóbol Colón (c. 1451-1506)

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Posthumous portrait of Columbus by Ridolfo Ghirlandaio Sepulcro de Cristóbol Colón (Columbus' Tomb) with coffin bearers representing the...
Sunday, October 11, 2009

Dealing with God's "Absence"

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The former Josef Cardinal Ratzinger, whom we now know as Pope Benedict XVI, writing in his Introduction to Christianity (pp. 223-230) about...
Saturday, October 10, 2009

Our Lady of Walsingham

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Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham at Julian House Monastery, Waukesha, WI During the Middle Ages two shrines were especially popular among th...
Friday, October 9, 2009

Oxford's "Ruler of the Schools"

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Tomb of Bl. Robert Grosseteste at Lincoln Cathedral Lincoln Cathedral from the town square Shrine of St. Hugh of Lincoln at Lincoln Cathedra...
Tuesday, October 6, 2009

William Tyndale (Tyndall) - c. 1494-1536

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Tyndale is a famous 16th-century Protestant reformer and scholar who, influenced by Desiderius Erasmus and Martin Luther, translated substan...
Sunday, October 4, 2009

Il Poverello

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Portrait of St. Francis of Assisi, probably done while he was still living. Depicts him wiping his eyes, which were afflicted almost to the ...
Saturday, October 3, 2009

Thérèse of Lisieux: The Hidden Face of the Church

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(Original drawing by Sister Therese, OJN) " For let us be honest with ourselves: Who among us has ever read The Story of a Soul for th...
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Retired Episcopal parish priest and Regional Missioner; professed Oblate of the Order of Julian of Norwich
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