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Fr Ronald Rolheiser
Nothing is ever really ours
everything is gift. that’s a principle that ultimately undergirds all spirituality, all morality and every commandment. everything is gift. ...
The flavour of God’s energy
all things considered, i believe that i grew up with a relatively healthy concept of god. the god of my youth, the god that i was catechised...
The nature of virtue and sin
there’s an axiom which says that nothing feels better than virtue. there’s a deep truth here, but it has an underside. when we do good thing...
Of winners and losers
our society tends to divide us up into winners and losers. sadly, we don’t often reflect on how this affects our relationships with each oth...
Welcoming the stranger
in the hebrew scriptures, that part of the bible we call the old testament, we find a strong religious challenge to always welcome the stran...
Embittered moralising
one of the dangers inherent in trying to live out a life of christian fidelity is that we are prone to become embittered moralisers, older b...
God’s power as powerlessness
the french novelist and essayist léon bloy once made this comment about god’s power in our world: “god seems to have condemned himself until...
The Noonday Devil and Sabbath
early christian monks believed in something they called acedia. more colloquially, they called it the noonday devil, a name that essentially...
Taking our wounds to the Eucharist
recently a man came to me, asking for help. he carried some deep wounds, not physical wounds but emotional wounds to his soul. what surprise...
Orthodoxy, sin and heresy
recently, while on the road giving a workshop, i took the opportunity to go the cathedral in the city i was in for a sunday eucharist. i was...
My favourite books of the past year
so much of life, particularly today, constitutes an unconscious conspiracy against reading. lack of time, the pressure of our jobs and elect...
Incarnation – God is with us
for many of us, i suspect, it gets harder each year to capture the mood of christmas. about the only thing that still warms us are memories:...
Our churches as sanctuaries
whenever we have been at our best, as christians, we have opened our churches as sanctuaries to the poor and the endangered. we have a long,...
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