HeyJaredGary Jansen
My ramblings on writing and art and God and meditation and tacos.
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The Angelic Examen (opens the original)
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One of the many things I love about being Catholic is that it calls me to believe in the impossible. God becomes Man. That a Virgin gives birth. That God-Man is murdered and returns from the dead. Bread becomes flesh, wine becomes blood. Cripples walk, those afflicted with disease are healed, and demons—nasty living entities—are real and can influence our lives.To be Catholic—to believe in the impossible—is a big, tall middle finger to modernity, to the modern culture that asks us to believe in
September 11th—Twenty-Five Years Ago Today (opens the original)
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Twenty-five years ago, the world changed forever when terrorists attacked the United States on the morning of September 11. Last year, I shared my memories of being in New York when the towers fell. I offer this reflection again in memory of all those who died in the 9/11 attacks and for their friends and families. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!00iP!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws
Gary Jansen on the Benefits of Reading & Writing (opens the original)
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Thank you to everyone who tuned into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app.Get more from Gary Jansen in the Substack appAvailable for iOS and Android<
A Little Biography on St. Augustine (opens the original)
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Today is the feast day of possibly the most influential saint in the intellectual history of the West. Arguably. I’m sure others will say that distinction belongs to St. Thomas Aquinas, but I’ll stick with Augustine because he predates Aquinas by roughly 870 years and set the stage for the theology that Aquinas would respond to in the Middle Ages.A couple of years back, I wrote a book called <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0762484853/?bestFormat=true&k=saints%20angels%20and%20demons%20book&re
Praying with Your Imagination (opens the original)
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If you’re a regular church-goer (and even if you’re not), you’ve probably heard something like the following, oh, maybe a million times: “God loved us so much that he sent his only Son to us so he could save us from our sins.”Well, that’s just great. These words formulate a basic tenet of our Christian faith. Yet what do they really mean to you and to me? Even though we have some powerful words here—God, love, sins—they are just words. Abstractions. They appeal to our mind but not necessarily ou
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