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Tag Archives: Fullness

Seeing and Recognizing Are Not the Same

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The Second Journey

What looks like falling can largely be experienced as falling upward and onward, into a broader and deeper world. Continue Reading The Second Journey

A Ripening Mind and Heart

The horizon of old age seems to be a plan that God has prepared as inevitable and part of the necessary school of life. Continue Reading A Ripening Mind and Heart

The Theological Virtue of Hope

Mystical Hope The Theological Virtue of Hope Sunday, December 5, 2021 Second Sunday of Advent Mystical hope offers us an experience of trust that God’s presence, love, and mercy is in and all around us, regardless of circumstances or future outcome. Father Richard Rohr writes of such hope through our anticipation of Jesus’ coming during… Continue Reading The Theological Virtue of Hope

What Kind of God Do We Believe In?

Images of God What Kind of God Do We Believe In? Tuesday, November 30, 2021 Author and Benedictine sister Joan Chittister catalogs how some of the most common images of God influence our behavior and reminds us that we can choose more helpful and loving images. In the long light of human history, then, it… Continue Reading What Kind of God Do We Believe In?

Expanding Our Capacity to Love

Unveiling the Universal Christ Expanding Our Capacity to Love Wednesday, August 25, 2021 To be loved by Jesus enlarges our heart capacity. To be loved by the Christ enlarges our mental capacity. We need both a Jesus and a Christ, in my opinion, to get the full picture. A truly transformative God—for both the individual… Continue Reading Expanding Our Capacity to Love

Unveiling the Great (Christ) Mystery

Unveiling the Universal Christ Unveiling the Great (Christ) Mystery Sunday, August 22, 2021 This mystery has been kept in the dark for a long time, but now it’s out in the open. God wanted everyone, not just Jews, to know this rich and glorious secret inside and out, regardless of their background, regardless of their… Continue Reading Unveiling the Great (Christ) Mystery

The Fullness of Time

Communion of Saints The Fullness of Time Monday, March 8, 2021 What some call “liminal space” or threshold space (in Latin, limen means a threshold) is a very good phrase for those special times, events, and places that open us up to the sacred. It seems we need special (sacred) days to open us up… Continue Reading The Fullness of Time

The Prayer of Unveiling

A Time of Unveiling The Prayer of Unveiling Monday, January 4, 2021 For now we see through a glass, darkly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know fully, as I am fully known. —1 Corinthians 13:12 When we celebrate the beginning of a new year, we celebrate… Continue Reading The Prayer of Unveiling

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