Benedict learned from experience that pushing yourself too hard can be a road to spiritual ruin. There is a fine line between work that glorifies God and work that merely glorifies yourself.
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A prayer for the migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border
An Encounter with Silence
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Why I gave up my job at NASA to become a nun
I have learned that belief is not unique to those who consider themselves religious.
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A plea and challenge to Jesuits: Embrace authentic poverty
Jesuit poverty should be as dramatically visible and shocking as the incarnation of Jesus.
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Where is God when a mother dies in childbirth?
We do not anticipate young mothers dying at a moment devoted to birth, and yet we know it happens. We know about death, and yet we are caught unawares by it.
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The Laudato Si’ generation: Why I gave my graduation speech on climate change
Fordham University’s student graduation speaker was motivated by her faith to call for “zero emissions, zero excuses and zero time to waste.”
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I grew up in a violent home. The suffering Christ reminds me I am loved.
Like many people raised in an abusive environment, I also married a man who treated me with the disrespect and violence that I had been accustomed to.
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Kickball, Sia and 3 a.m. pizza: An O’Hare Fellow reflects on his year at America Media
You need to find laughs wherever you can; God is in laughter.
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The Pentecost Testimony of a Mad, Fed-Up Catholic
Is all of this revealed horror a kind of Pentecost for us? If so, God, please help us live through it.
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Why a happily married father of six became a monk (for a month)
I am middle-aged, happily married and the father of six children. Thankfully, the monastic guest program at Mepkin Abbey, a Trappist monastery in South Carolina, is open to all.