January 2023

A heavenly Valentine: before birth each soul is kissed by God. Three questions at the gate: Who are you? How did you love? Why weren’t you happy? An obituary for Mr. Common Sense. The true self is slowly born as the false self is humiliated.

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February 2023

Why do we resist happiness? Resistance wears a thousand masks — laziness, fear, shopping, self-sabotage. God is happy; you are made in His image. The desire for God is written in the human heart.

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March 2023

From Lewis’s Great Divorce: heaven honors Molly Schultz the scrubwoman, who loved much. Holiness is in daily life or it is not at all. Without the priest there is no Eucharist. Is celibacy more important than the Eucharist?

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April 2023

Have we become cafeteria Christians, adapting the Word to the world? Marriage is a monastery of self-sacrifice, not a comfort station. Pray twenty minutes a day unless you are too busy — then an hour. Merton: a society without interior silence is held by violence.

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May 2023

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July 2023

The touch of the Master’s hand turns a battered violin into a treasure. Peter Marshall in 1944: if the Lord be God, follow Him; if Baal, follow him. America needs prophets, not moral fog. Freedom weeps when conviction is traded for convenience.

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August 2023

If you are not shocked by Jesus, you are not listening. Christianity cannot be lived by willpower alone, only by Spirit power. Everyone is welcome; not everything goes.

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September 2023

Steady the course. Pray for teachers going back to school, caught between love of children and a moral theology they did not choose. Now is the time to plant trees of truth under which the children will one day sit.

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October 2023

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November 2023

Clay balls on the beach hid jewels; we throw people away by the outside. Anthony of the Desert: a bow always stretched will break — learn to do nothing well. Husbands and wives can pray the rosary together. Happy Thanksgiving, and a fruitful Advent.

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December 2023

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Winter 2023

The bulletproof George Washington: four bullets through his coat, two horses shot, and an Indian chief who ceased fire because the Great Spirit shielded him. The story was in textbooks until 1934. The founders quoted the Bible more than Locke. Restore the words good and evil, right and wrong.

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