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- How the chaos of my initiation turned my world upside downI had a nightmare experience and I do think it’s … Continue reading →
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Category Archives: Interior Life
Why I asked the Catholic Church to baptize me
First of all, I should say I didn’t want to “become Catholic”. I wasn’t in search of an identity, or belonging, or seeking membership in an exclusive club. I had read and prayed and meditated and dreamt my way to … Continue reading
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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
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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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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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“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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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
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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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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
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