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Image of God
Many years ago I wrote this poem after the birth of my third son. It is particularly appropriate during this season of advent; the poem can easily be applied to the Christ child. Image of God Sheltered in warmth, Cocooned … Continue reading
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Understanding Divine Providence: Montaigne and the Fear of Death
The life and Essays of Michel de Montaigne, the sixteenth-century French Catholic philosopher, reveals how accepting the will of God helps a person face the overwhelming fear of mortality–in other words, to embrace death. Montaigne was neither saint, priest, nor … Continue reading
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Modernity and Martyrdom: Dying for Providence
One of the great challenges to a person who believes that God’s will is always present is that Providence orders a world of growing irreligiosity, violence, terrorism, and atheistic ideologies. The divine plan is clearly beyond the human ability to … Continue reading
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The Virgin of Guadalupe
In 1759 in the coolness of an October morning just before dawn in the forest of southern Quebec, English soldiers stealthily crept up to a sleeping Algonquin village. On a signal from their commander, Robert Rogers, his men, the Rangers, … Continue reading
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Joseph Ratzinger and Providence
Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI, was a theologian, academic, writer, and historian of Christianity who believed in Providence, that God’s will is present throughout time and place. Providence is the theme of the Psalms, indeed the entirety of the Bible; … Continue reading
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God’s Shadow over American History
Jean-Pierre Caussade in Abandonment to Divine Providence writes truthfully that God is behind all historical events. If so, then it is God’s will that the United States is in 2025 exactly where He wills it to be. And further, that … Continue reading
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Christianity and Labor Day: Why Work Matters
Americans first celebrated Labor Day in the 1880s during the height of the Industrial Revolution in America when immigrants were coming to America to fill the growing number of low-paying jobs in factories in American cities. The founders of Labor … Continue reading
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The Theology of Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory in Joseph Razinger’s (Pope Benedict XVI’s) book Eschatology
What happens when we die? Roman Catholics have death ever on the mind. It is part of Christian theology, to follow the commandments and sacraments so to be prepared when death comes. But then, why do we still fear death? … Continue reading
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Tagged bible, books, Christianity, faith, god, Jesus, Love, Pope
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Thomas Merton and the Great Commission
Thomas Merton spent his life contemplating his purpose in the world, trying to discern how his desires and ambitions fit God’s plan. Born in France in 1915, Merton was well-traveled, a convert to Catholicism, and by his own admission was … Continue reading
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Primer on Providence: Augustine’s City of God
Augustine, a convert to Christianity who had experienced four seconds of providence in 386 AD, who had become Bishop of Hippo in Africa in 397, who had written an account of his life, Confessions, in 392, who heard as all … Continue reading
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The American Plutarch 