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Peace in your soul. Strive to be happy.
As of September 2025, there are more good days than awful days. I still don’t know why a lot of things happened, but time does heal. I still struggle to reconcile that in a setting where the highest ideals are … Continue reading
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Favourite One-liners Volume 1 (talking to women)
“You talked to the priests? Why’d you do that? Priests are men!”-MT, a lady in Toronto from their local Catholic Women’s League “They get those jobs because they can smooth things over.”-HB, a religious sister explaining the types of priests … Continue reading
Posted in Community Life, Favorite One-liners, Interior Life
Tagged acquiring Christian behaviors, being a convert, Catechumenate, Christian-as-a-Second-Language (CSL), Favourite One-liners, Healing wounds, meaning of life, RCIA, Reconciliation, Single adults, Spiritual Physician, women ministering to other women
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God speaks
“Sisters is a one-hour documentary film that takes us into the lives of five American Catholic Sisters. It is a film about faith and hope, love and death, seen through the eyes of five women who have committed their lives … Continue reading
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Tagged acquiring Christian behaviors, Act of Perfect Contrition, Catechism of the Catholic Church, Christian-as-a-Second-Language (CSL), Path to Salvation by St Theophan the Recluse, Sisters Documentary, the 32 Parts of the Body, Tonglen, Vippassana
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Why Universals Need Eucharistic Adoration
The sign and the symbol i.e. the projection of God (our Self) has to go somewhere… Can modern enlightened people be taught to use the Eucharist as mirror? “I bow to the Buddha in me.” “I look at Jesus and … Continue reading
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Tagged Bhakti: Devotional Practices, Buddhist, Coming Home to Christianity, Ecumenism, Edward Edinger, Eucharist, Eucharistic Adoration, Examen of Consciousness, God, Ground of Being, meaning of life, The Source, Theological Imagination, Traditional Latin Mass
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“God loves you!”
This talk by Rabbi Friedman is the best explanation of the spirit vs the soul, or the Source or, where we come from and where we’re going back. Do you think ‘afterlife’ is the best term? Or, are we just … Continue reading
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Tagged God, Ground of Being, Tathagata, The Source
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Four Stages of Forgiveness
Four Stages of Forgiveness How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstances instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the people rather than angry. You have nothing left to say … Continue reading
Learning to speak ‘Christian’ requires community
“[R]ecalling the ‘dangerous memory of Mary’ challenges depictions of Mary’s life that attempt to neutralize its radical implications for pushing against injustice and its call to stand in compassionate solidarity with all who suffer….It is this dangerous memory of La … Continue reading
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Tagged abortion, acquiring Christian behaviors, being a convert, Catholic Women Preach, Christ consciousness, Christ the Redeemer, conservative moral matrix, Eucharist, Feminism, RCIA, Reconciliation, Theological Imagination, Womb to Tomb
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Buddhist-informed Ignatian Exercises
My Lenten project in 2021 is to begin again; to revisit the Ignatian Exercises I discovered in 2014 and to mediate on where I’ve fallen short in empathy over the last few years. Rather than the dreary Catholic preoccupation with … Continue reading