Posted in Holiness, Transformation on Jun 3rd, 2006
Fashion is fickle. I went to STYLE.COM to find out what I should be anxious about this year (unlike the lilies of the field, who neither toil nor spin). I learned that my lips should be scarlet, and that it would be advisable to get a designer bag for my cell phone. [...]
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Posted in Holiness on Apr 7th, 2005
Sometimes when I am just dragging through my day, feeling weighed down by the realities of everyday life, I wish I could be lifted out of my nitty-gritty existence — be “caught up to the third heaven” as St. Paul says in 2 Corinthians 12:2. I suspect, though, that one reason human beings are so [...]
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Posted in Holiness, Mary on Feb 26th, 2005
I have been involved in Church music for a some time now, and the intense stage-fright I had at first has vanished. For the first few years, however, my sleep would occasionally be disturbed by what I called “out-of-control liturgy dreams.” Often in these dreams, everything would go well until we reached the [...]
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This year is the bicentennial of the birth of Saint Therese Couderc, co-founder of the Cenacle Sisters. My group (five of us) entered the pre-novitiate on February 1, the birthday of the saint we call Mother Therese, but about whom I knew precious little then.
Oh, I had read a romantically pious biography of her, and [...]
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