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Do You Worry About Missing Your Calling?
So here’s a question that I posted on Facebook: Do you worry about missing your calling? I hear from many people that they’d “just love to do x or y but it’s too late. I guess I missed my calling.”...
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Loving Work now available for Pre-Ordering
My new book with Orbis Press is now available to pre-order from Amazon. See a non-finalized version of the cover below.
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Are You Welcomed at Your Church?
The good folks at the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston put this together and it expresses the idea of welcome so well. Is your parish like this? Tell us if you feel welcome in your parish.
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Are We Certain That We Are Certain?
A recent video showed a nun stating that she knows that she’s doing the will of God in her life and that because of her vow of obedience she “doesn’t live with any uncertainty” and that brings her joy....
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Pre-Order Loving Work…my Second Book
In November, my second book, Loving Work will hit the presses and I couldn’t be more excited. The folks at Orbis Press, especially the famed Mike Leach, have been great to work alongside. This is a...
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Are You on Rich Soil?
St. Ignatius reminds us to never make decisions when we are in desolation. Today’s Gospel reminds us of that in the parable of the sower and the seeds. Because you just have to feel for the sower, huh?...
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Sandy in Long Island
I just returned from Long Island where 8 of us from St Joe’s took some time to help people effected by Superstorm Sandy. We were hosted by Fr. Ted Brown, the director of Campus Ministry at LIU Post and...
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Can One Experience Change Us Forever?
Heather Mallick has a haunting article in the Toronto Star today that several colleagues have forwarded to me today. The mother of one of the children in the Newtown shooting insisted on an open...
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To Find the Sunrise Amidst the Rain
So I just spent two glorious days at the Collegeville Institute in Minnesota, which is one of my all time favorite places. Whether the lovely setting, the St. John’s Abbey, the St. John’s Bible, the...
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For All That I Am, Lord
Written at the Collegeville Institute as our prayer to describe where the spirit is moving in our communities with regards to their own vocation: Thank you God for calling me into this place For the...
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Government Held Hostage
Art imitates life today with this scene from the West Wing. Pope Francis has been calling us to mercy and it seems there are far too many in the government who are less than merciful. Placing a last...
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Do You Have the Time?
Time..don’t run out on me. It’s a phrase that I’ve mentioned often in ministry as being an element that is essential to the development of faith. I challenge spiritual directees to prioritize their...
View ArticleAre You Welcomed at Your Church?
The good folks at the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston put this together and it expresses the idea of welcome so well. Is your parish like this? Tell us if you feel welcome in your parish.
View ArticleAre We Certain That We Are Certain?
A recent video showed a nun stating that she knows that she’s doing the will of God in her life and that because of her vow of obedience she “doesn’t live with any uncertainty” and that brings her joy....
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Pre-Order Loving Work…my Second Book
In November, my second book, Loving Work will hit the presses and I couldn’t be more excited. The folks at Orbis Press, especially the famed Mike Leach, have been great to work alongside. This is a...
View ArticleAre You on Rich Soil?
St. Ignatius reminds us to never make decisions when we are in desolation. Today’s Gospel reminds us of that in the parable of the sower and the seeds. Because you just have to feel for the sower, huh?...
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Sandy in Long Island
I just returned from Long Island where 8 of us from St Joe’s took some time to help people effected by Superstorm Sandy. We were hosted by Fr. Ted Brown, the director of Campus Ministry at LIU Post and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Can One Experience Change Us Forever?
Heather Mallick has a haunting article in the Toronto Star today that several colleagues have forwarded to me today. The mother of one of the children in the Newtown shooting insisted on an open...
View ArticleClik here to view.
To Find the Sunrise Amidst the Rain
So I just spent two glorious days at the Collegeville Institute in Minnesota, which is one of my all time favorite places. Whether the lovely setting, the St. John’s Abbey, the St. John’s Bible, the...
View ArticleFor All That I Am, Lord
Written at the Collegeville Institute as our prayer to describe where the spirit is moving in our communities with regards to their own vocation: Thank you God for calling me into this place For the...
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