January 2019

Mary’s Field at thirty-six; family rosaries; fifty-five years a priest. We are punished by our sins more than for them. Carlo Carretto on love; three questions at death: Who are you? How did you love? Why weren’t you happy?

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February 2019

Panis Angelicus: a discarded host in Buenos Aires becomes living heart tissue, scientifically inexplicable. The Eucharist is not a symbol but His presence.

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March 2019

Transformed people transform people. Sunday church does not transform you if your basket is empty. Love is a four-letter word spelled TIME. Daily centering prayer, Keating said, can turn musty religion into relationship.

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April 2019

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June 2019

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July 2019

Mother Teresa: we are called to faithfulness, not success. Merton: at all costs avoid success, which inflates the false self. The fisherman already has what the businessman promises after a lifetime of empire. Centering prayer is the real solution.

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August 2019

The goodness issue: you are an eagle, not a prairie chicken. God made you and God doesn’t make junk. Miss Lizzy tells the old man God is in the heart, not a sign in the sky. The crab-bucket of the crowd pulls us back unless we do inner work.

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September 2019

One hundred frogs race a mountain; only the deaf one reaches the summit. Become selectively deaf to negativity. Twelve ways to practice resurrection. God knocks: “I like what I see.”

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October 2019

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November 2019

Thanksgiving: Mother Teresa tells a young priest that love demands the maximum. Without God we are too poor to help the poor. Kintsugi teaches that perfection incorporates the crack. Even search dogs pointed to the tabernacle.

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December 2019

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