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Humans Have a Hunger

Humans have a hunger which they do not share with any other creature on earth nbsp It rsquo s a craving for meaning nbsp All animals find sustenance in the world but we alone require something else of it nbsp We need the world to be purposeful nbsp That rsquo s at the core of what it means

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Tanti Anni Fa

Tanti anni fa as the Italians would say I was studying Italian at the nbsp Dante Alighieri Scuola per Stranieri nbsp in Florence just off the nbsp Ponte Vecchio I had already passed a year in Rome studying theology in the Italian language at the Gregorian University But I had arrived in the

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Sarajevo, Saints Peter and Paul

Such happenstance what happened in the city of Sarajevo on June 28th 1914 To recognize its significance and effect one must understand the world that day rsquo s deed erased A hundred years ago Europe was at peace enjoying the most beautiful of summers still at the start of a new century on

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A Trinitarian Trace?

Fifty-eight-year old Luis recalled his grandfather Ignacio as being so domineering that he could command others with his eyes ldquo If we were doing something wrong hellip he talked to you with his eyes With his eyes he told you no nbsp And with his eyes he told you to go outside nbsp H

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Pentecost: We Came Crying Hither

Late in King Lear mdash Act IV Scene 5 to be precise mdash the old King cast off by his unloving daughters and wandering in a storm comes upon his faithful servant Gloucester The earl rsquo s eyes have been ripped out by Lear rsquo s enemies Recognizing him the king reminds him just how human

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