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Fr Ronald Rolheiser
Even holy people are scared of death
"a common soldier dies without fear; jesus died afraid.” iris murdoch wrote those words which, i believe, help expose an over-simplistic not...
Jean Vanier (1928-2019)
our differences are not a threat but a treasure. jean vanier, the founder of l’arche, who died in paris on may 7, wrote those words; but the...
What kind of love makes for a marriage and a home?
during the years that i served as a religious superior for a province of oblate priests and brothers in western canada, i tried to keep my f...
Language, symbols and self-understanding
a reporter once asked two men at the construction site where a church was being built what each did for a living. the first man replied: “i’...
How to be a practising mystic
“i’m a practising mystic.” a woman said that in one of my classes some years ago and it raised lots of eyebrows. i was teaching a class in m...
There are three different kinds of spirituality. We need them all
where should we be casting our eyes? upward, downward, or just on the road that we’re walking? well, there are different kinds of spirituali...
And all manner of thing shall be well
we are all, i suspect, familiar with the famous expression from julian of norwich, now an axiom in our language. “in the end all shall be we...
Our own Good Friday
when the romans designed crucifixion as their means of capital punishment, they had more in mind than simply putting someone to death. they ...
What we haven't got right about sex
several years ago, in the question-and-answer period after a public lecture, a rather disgruntled young man asked me a question that carried...
What we might be asked at the gates of heaven
most of us have been raised to believe that we have a right to possess whatever comes to us honestly, either through our own work or through...
How to celebrate without getting a hangover
we don’t know how to celebrate things as they’re meant to be celebrated. we want to, but mostly we don’t know how. generally we celebrate ba...
The painful lessons of the abuse crisis
what’s to be learned through failure, through being humbled by our own faults? generally that’s the only way we grow. in being humbled by ou...
It's never too late to say something to a deceased loved one
a colleague of mine, a clinical therapist, shares the following story. a woman came to him in considerable distress. her husband had recentl...
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