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Love and Compassion

Buddhists call it compassion, This love that we have within, A love that is in fashion, Intuits when we begin, A house with many mansions, A place without sin. A place where fly the fairies, Those beings swift as the … Continue reading

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Christianity and Memorial Day

What does Memorial Day have to do with Roman Catholics? Is it only a ceremony with meaning for patriotic Americans? Or can others throughout the world learn from the Roman Catholic approach to celebrating Memorial Day? To answer these questions, … 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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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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The Poetry of Providence: King David and the Psalms

Divine Providence in the life and thought of King David as revealed in the Psalms: the Psalms as the poetry of Providence, in that, throughout the Psalms, God the Logos interacts with time through the person of King David, to … Continue reading

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Four Seconds of Providence

Providence, the will and presence of God in each moment, is never felt by some people, is felt in moments of joy or consternation by others, is sensed in the minutiae of nature by some, is a product of intense … Continue reading

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Ignatius of Loyola, Soldier for Christ

Ignatius of Loyola was a soldier for Navarre, Spain, who became a soldier for Christ. Recovering from battle wounds at his family’s castle in Loyola in the Basque region of Spain, he experienced conversion in which he renounced his former … Continue reading

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God’s Shadow over 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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God is with Us in Each and Every Moment: The Teaching of Jean-Pierre de Caussade (1675-1751)

Jean-Pierre de Caussade, an eighteenth-century French Jesuittheologian, provided a seminal study of God’s will in Abandonment to Divine Providence. Caussade writes that to sense God in each present moment that connects the past and future moments sets the mind to … Continue reading

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