Gratefulness flows from the Supplies on the Journey mentioned in my previous blogs especially openness, wakefulness, attentiveness-mindfulness, wonder, and awe. Unless we have these dispositions or at least move toward them, a sense of gratefulness may be difficult but not impossible. Practice gratitude for the little things that happen to…
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“Let them prefer nothing whatever to Christ” says St. Benedict in Chapter 72 of his Rule, the chapter entitled “The Good Zeal of Monks.” I have been reflecting on this phrase repeatedly in the last several weeks trying to unearth not only what our Holy Father Benedict meant for the…
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The Christmas season came to an end this week, and it still seems a blur. I’m remembering the words of Cardinal Avery Dulles, “The Incarnation does not mean that God saves us from the pains of this life. It means that God-is-with-us… Christmas gives us a drill that lets us…
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