“He who has ears, let him hear” (Matthew 11:15). When I was nine, I was taken in for hearing tests. My teacher,…
Posts Categorized: Gifts & Fruits of the Spirit
Rest — What’s That?
“Rise up, Lord, and come to your place of rest (Ps 131).” How often do we define ourselves by what we’ve accomplished…
Joy is for Sharing
As I write, I’m at the Convocation of Catholic Leaders in Orlando, Florida. Enjoyed a chocolate malt Friday night just after getting…
Scripture Blooms with Lectio Divina
Lectio Divina is Latin for “Divine Reading”—reading scripture slowly and deeply. I love this definition: “It does not treat Scripture as texts…
Loving Look of a Lifetime
A while back, I wrote a post called “Grandma’s Loving Look.” Yesterday, I attended a talk by Sr. Tracey Dugas, FSP, a…
Fire and Water
Good habits of thought and action, called virtues, connect us with God. In fact, they make us like God. It’s a little scary…
Ancient Wisdom for Today
After my friend Don checked out Virtue Connection, he emailed word of the 48 middot, or virtues, in the tradition of reform…
Virtue Blossoms
In her poem, The Land, Vita Sackville-West wrote that “June is the month of weeds.” As we’re removing plants that take away…
Gifts Worth Unwrapping
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…
Beware the Amygdala
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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