We stayed there through the night, waiting for reports from “the great out there.”
Terrance Klein
The Rev. Terrance W. Klein is a priest of the Diocese of Dodge City and author of Vanity Faith.
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Welcoming the stranger—even when he forgets to knock
The phone rang. “Father, it’s Joss. We think there is someone in the choir loft.”
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Want to be more humble? There’s a prayer for that.
Pride isn’t the answer to our fears. Humility is. If you lack humility, pray for God to gird your life with love.
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When in Rome, why choose vanilla?
We can close ourselves to the best of this life, and, however else we define sin, it is surely that.
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The Feast of the Assumption: Sharing in Mary’s seamless death
Death doesn’t come by calendar or clock, but it need not come as thief.
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When someone tells you that you’re in a hole, listen.
There are truths about ourselves that we alone know. And there are others that everyone, except us, can see.
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We learn, when, in graced memory, we retrace what went wrong.
How good are we with the cracks, with responding to unexpected demands?
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Kingdom Consciousness: Why Christians look to the ‘not yet’
To forget the kingdom to come is to make ourselves at home in the world.
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Once having known the presence of God, we can’t forget it.
When we pray, we know that someone is there.
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St. Thérèse taught me to pray—and play—with Jesus.
Create the smallest of openings, and Christ can put Peter Pan to shame.