When you look for me, you will find me; (Jer 29:13)
Spirituality
Posted inFaith, The Word
This Christmas and every Christmas, God’s Word is love.
Christ is all that God has to say to us, and Christ calls us to love.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
Free At Last: Dec. 24, Fourth Saturday of Advent
As Advent hurtles towards a close, it is my hope that our readings have illuminated the freedom we find in the commitment to prayer.
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Christmas reminds us why we wait for God.
We wait, and we wait, and we wait. This is the message of tonight’s Gospel.
Posted inArts & Culture, In All Things
The Jew, Catholic and Midwestern Christian behind ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’
The holiday special was the product of a Jewish producer from San Francisco and a Mexican-American Catholic whose mother brought him across the border in the 1920s.
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The Name Game: Dec. 23, Fourth Friday of Advent
The relationship with Christ that we cultivate through prayer is grounded in his complete understanding of who we are, down to speaking our very name.
Posted inArts & Culture
The arrested development of the American conscience in moral decision making
In the United States we need in humility to allow ourselves to be judged by the truth.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
What the mockingbird on my windowsill taught me about the spiritual life.
As long as I have lived here, almost 30 years now, a mockingbird has arrived every spring and stayed until the approach of winter.
Posted inArts & Culture, Podcasts
Jesuit Spirituality in Theater
In this week’s podcast, George Drance, S.J., chats to Matt Malone, S.J., and Kerry Weber about his approach to the theater as a Jesuit actor and director. George Drance also talks about his next play, “Calderon’s Two Dreams,” which opens at La MaMa in New York in February 2017.
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Spiritual Baggage: On finding the line between self-esteem and self-promotion.
In our lives, ’tis a gift to be humble, but not a gift that many of us have.