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’)

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

The Holy "Village Idiot"

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  St. John Vianney (1786 - 1869) " Among the other priests, I am like the village idiot; but when I think how the good Lord has taken...
Sunday, August 1, 2010

Learning To Be "Rich Toward God"

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Here is a story which I gleaned from the blog site of Fr. Rick McCracken-Bennett, rector of All Saints Episcopal Church in New Albany, OH: ...
Friday, July 30, 2010

William Wilberforce & Anthony Ashley-Cooper: Witnesses for Social Justice

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Just and eternal God, we give you thank for the stalwart faith and persistence of your servants William Wilberforce and A...
Thursday, July 29, 2010

SS. Martha, Mary & Lazarus of Bethany

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Martha, the homemaker: bustling about, " busy about many things ". Mary, the contemplative, content to sit at Jesus' feet and...
Tuesday, July 27, 2010

A Kind of Church Leader We Could Use Today

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Blessed William Reed Huntington (1838-1909): Episcopal priest, husband, father, practical theologian, writer, secretary of the 1892 Book of ...
Monday, July 26, 2010

Let's Hear It For the Grandparents!

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Today's feast of SS. Anna and Joachim, parents of  Mary and grandparents of Our Lord, is a good occasion to celebrate all of us grandpar...
Friday, July 23, 2010

St. John Cassian (c. 360-433)

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Speaking of the early Egyptian Fathers of the desert whom he and his friend, Germanus, interviewed regarding the monastic life, Cassian say...
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Retired Episcopal parish priest and Regional Missioner; professed Oblate of the Order of Julian of Norwich
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