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“He who has ears, let him hear” (Matthew 11:15). When I was nine, I was taken in for hearing tests. My teacher,…

“Rise up, Lord, and come to your place of rest (Ps 131).” How often do we define ourselves by what we’ve accomplished…

As I write, I’m at the Convocation of Catholic Leaders in Orlando, Florida. Enjoyed a chocolate malt Friday night just after getting…

Lectio Divina is Latin for “Divine Reading”—reading scripture slowly and deeply. I love this definition: “It does not treat Scripture as texts…

A while back, I wrote a post called “Grandma’s Loving Look.” Yesterday, I attended a talk by Sr. Tracey Dugas, FSP, a…

Good habits of thought and action, called virtues, connect us with God. In fact, they make us like God. It’s a little scary…

After my friend Don checked out Virtue Connection, he emailed word of the 48 middot, or virtues, in the tradition of reform…

In her poem, The Land, Vita Sackville-West wrote that “June is the month of weeds.” As we’re removing plants that take away…

The seven gifts of the Holy Spirit first appear in Isaiah 11:2-3. They’re the gifts God offers us that make us more…

We have a lot more tools for growing in virtue than our great-grandparents did. One new-fangled tool is knowledge of how brain…

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