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How the ‘finger of God’ speaks to us through our lives (opens the original)
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A woman once shared this story in one of my classes: She had been raised in a religious home and had been a regular churchgoer. However, during her years at university, her interest and practice in religion had progressively slipped so that by the time of her graduation she no longer attended church or prayed much. This indifference to prayer and church-going continued for several years after her graduation. Her story focused on how that changed. One day, nearly four years after having given up
How to pray when we don’t feel like it (opens the original)
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If we only prayed when we felt like it, we wouldn’t pray a lot. Enthusiasm, good feelings, and fervor will not sustain anyone’s prayer life for long, goodwill and firm intention notwithstanding. Our hearts and minds are complex and promiscuous, wild horses frolicking to their own tunes, with prayer frequently not on their agenda. The renowned mystic John of the Cross teaches that, after an initial period of fervor in prayer, we will spend the bulk of our years struggling to pray discursively, de
When we need silence for our lives — and when we don't (opens the original)
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Many of us could use more silence in our lives. I say this cautiously because the place of silence in our lives isn’t easy to specify. Silence is complex; sometimes we fear it and try to avoid it and sometimes when we are tired and over-stimulated, we positively long for it. Generally, though, we have too little of it in our lives. Work, cellphones, conversation, entertainment, news, distraction, and preoccupations of every kind tend to fill up every waking minute. We have become so used to bein
10 ways to practice ‘Sabbath’ for our health and spirituality (opens the original)
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The Sufi mystic Rumi once lamented: “I have lived too long where I can be reached!” That was 1,200 years ago, long before cellphones, the internet, computers, and social media. Today, most of us live where we can be reached all the time. While this has some huge upsides, it also has a nasty underside we have been slow to recognize. Never being able to step away from our preoccupations and involvements is weighing on our mental health. Many of us now find it difficult to step away, to stop activi
Why did Jesus use bread and wine at the first Eucharist? (opens the original)
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At the Last Supper, when Jesus instituted the Eucharist, he chose to use two elements, bread and wine. The images are now so deeply ingrained in our consciousness that we never stop to ask, why bread and wine? Among all the things Jesus might have chosen, why these two? What do they carry in themselves that makes them particularly apt to give expression to the body and blood of Christ? What, more particularly, does each represent? As they are used in the Eucharist, bread and wine symbolize very
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