road, Book of Eli

Silence in the Desert

It happened again. My words upset the one who heard them.  Why is it so? That I am unable to control my emotions and my

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order, design, creation, intelligibility

Guarding the Heart

These days it is so easy to fall away from the State of Grace that one may be in.  All it takes is one click,

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St. John the Baptist, baptism

God Speaks in Silence

The speech of God is silence. His word is solitude (Thomas Merton). Most of the Gospel readings during Advent are from the accounts of Mathew

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saint therese, jesus, saint

The Confident Saint

On October 15th,  Pope Francis brought out, On Confidence, a special apostolic exhortation on St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, the

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The Tassels of My Life

Some words from the Holy Bible have found themselves in our everyday vocabulary, and it is interesting to study their origins when they were first

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prodigal, father

The Prodigal Father

Everyone is familiar with the Parable of the Prodigal Son, found in Lk 15:11-32.  This parable has fascinated many over the centuries.  But was the

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