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Last night one of my friends told me that this year there would be a shortage of wood pellets. I don’t think there is a shortage of wood pellets anymore than I thought there was a need to attack Iraq. What we have in this country and perhaps the world is a shortage of honest … Read more

Life consists in learning to live on one’s own, spontaneous, freewheeling: to do this one must recognize what is one’s own—be familiar and at home with oneself. This means basically learning who one is, and learning what one has to offer to the contemporary world, and then learning how to make that offering valid. The … Read more

There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.–Albert Einstein This quote came from Gratefulness.org.

I’m sitting here watching “Schindler’s List.” “What is a person worth to you?”, says Amon Goethe. He’s the villain, but he speaks for all of us in some ways. What is a person worth to us? We’re surrounded by the main stream media and politicians who have reduced the Iraq War, the War on Terror, … Read more

This lovely story came from a regular reader of this blog. I hope you’ll take time to read it and to reflect on the love that surrounds us each day. In Phoenix, Arizona, a 26-year-old mother stared down at her 6 year old son, who was dying of terminal leukemia. Although her heart was filled … Read more

I came across this site tonight. I hope it helps someone pray. I needed to spend more time praying today and less time thinking of myself. Maybe I’ll be better at it tomorrow. Pax. Contemplative (Centering) Prayer and The Cloud of the Unknowing Technorati Tags:contemplative prayer, centering prayer, contemplation, meditation

Today’s world requires us to accept the oneness of humanity. In the past isolated communities could afford to think of one another as fundamentally separate. Some could even exist in total isolation. But today, whatever happens in one region eventually affects many other areas. In the context of our new interdependence, self-interest clearly lies in … Read more

Today was the feast of St. Thomas the Apostle. I can always identify with Thomas. Often in life I’ve found myself looking for more proof. Mustard seed faith doesn’t come easily to me. Peace.

In the remote mountains of northern Greece, there once lived a monk who desired all of his life to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Sepulchre-to walk three times around it, to kneel, and to return home a new person. Gradually through the years he had saved what money he could, begging in the villages … Read more

Today following Mass and brunch at Mt. Irenaeus I was speaking with another Secular Franciscan. Sandy McCoy is the Peace and Justice chair for the Kateri Tekawitha region of the Secular Franciscans and she is very well educated and read. As we were talking she mentioned the Jesuit Center of Concern as a well spring … Read more