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’)

Sunday, October 21, 2012

Priorities & Ambitions

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Whoever’s in charge of picking the Episcopal lessons for this Sunday’s Gospel (Mark 10:35-45) missed three verses (vv. 32-34) which are r...
Sunday, October 14, 2012

God's Silence: Part of Christian Revelation

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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) ab...
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Monday, October 8, 2012

Gazing At the Holy Face: Key to "Perfect Joy"

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[I’m indebted for the main ideas of this piece to an article by David Rensberger, “True and Perfect Joy” ( Weavings , Vol. 27, No. 4, ...
Sunday, September 30, 2012

Dealing With One of Jesus' Hard Sayings

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“ If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off...And if your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off...And if your eye causes you to st...
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Sunday, September 23, 2012

Who Is Really "The Greatest"?

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Fr. Daniel Harrington, a Catholic priest/professor at Boston College’s School for Theology and Ministry, has said: “ When I hear about...
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Sunday, September 16, 2012

Chosen. Period.

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Commenting on Mark’s Gospel (8:27-38), Tod O.L. Mundo offers this reflection: “ Are we able to recognize the people through whom God ...
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Saturday, September 15, 2012

Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows

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Today I ran across this wonderfully fresh translation of the hymn Stabat Mater . A notable number of scholars point to Jacapone da Tod...
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Retired Episcopal parish priest and Regional Missioner; professed Oblate of the Order of Julian of Norwich
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