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, March 23, 2014

Three Questions

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As we reflect on the Scriptures, I’m going to ask you three questions, which I hope will make you uncomfortable enough to pray through t...
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Sunday, March 16, 2014

Believing..Or Setting One's Heart On?

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The opening verse of Genesis 12 relates God's directive to Abram: " Go from your country and your kindred and your father's...
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Sunday, March 9, 2014

Moral Counterfeiting

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During Lent this year I'm using a helpful little work,  Daily Reflections for Lent: Not By Bread Alone  (Liturgical Press, 2013), b...
Thursday, March 6, 2014

Bending the Knee of the Heart

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O Lord, you are full of compassion, * long-suffering, and abounding in mercy. You hold back your hand; *  you do not punish as ...
Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Beloved Dust

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Not long ago, I reconnected briefly with a friend from my Education for Ministry mentoring days: Fr. Robert Davis Hughes, III, who has ...
Sunday, February 16, 2014

Epiphany 6

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The opening prayer today acknowledges God as the strength in whom you and I place our trust. Only a person who is blindly proud and self...
Tuesday, February 4, 2014

The "Excellent Foundress"

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The Venerable Giovanni Merlini, 3rd Moderator of the Congregation of the Precious Blood, a favorite companion of its founder, St. Gaspar d...
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Retired Episcopal parish priest and Regional Missioner; professed Oblate of the Order of Julian of Norwich
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