Category: Blog
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All is Grace
The post discusses the concept of an individual’s “garment”, representing their aptitudes, burdens, and weaknesses. It underscores the understanding that life experiences contribute to the garment, whether desirable or not. The idea of “Charism” is defined as a spiritual gift, which might also originate from our wounds or troubles. The author emphasizes the importance of…
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Why me?
The text explores the unity of body and soul, dismissing the idea of a “female soul in a male body”, or vice versa. It affirms the defining influence of DNA on our gender and posits that humans are whole from conception, with distinct traits discovered later likened to ‘garments’. Notions of race and gender expression…
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Breathing with Both
Even standing still I sometimes move by accident.
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And to the Left
The story discusses the complexities of political propaganda witnessed first-hand by the author during 9/11-related protests. It insinuates Marxist manipulation hidden in the peace movement and paranoia inducing circumstances, impacting the author’s trust in political activities. He questions the American Left’s support for Palestinians, the American Right’s support for Israel, and explores possible interests lurking…
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Silver Jubilee
The Domain is 25. How little has changed.
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Gala-had
ST DOMINIC’S had a fundraising gala on Saturday Night to celebrate our 150th Anniversary – and in benefit of our Tower Restoration process. I do not own formal wear so I borrowed something: The kilt, I’m told, is a regional tartan: a clan sort of fading away so, rather than have the tartan vanish entirely,…
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What is IS?
What is the value of a human being? Of what is he made that he costs so little and so much?
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Who Chose Who?
Oil and water never mix. What about the Gentiles and the Chosen?
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Therapaedeutics
Do we have to “love ourself” first before we can love our neighbor? Note added 9/25/23 regarding self esteem.
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All Things?
When things are good, the will of God seems pretty awesome. How can we talk about the will of God around a dumpster fire like we have now?
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Restore Us
When God’s grace is compared to “watercourses in the Negev”. This is what they mean, btw. You don’t need to know Hebrew. God’s love is pouring down on us like this. Over and over. And Over.
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Wondrous Type
In the process of meditation literature, to be “fulfilled” is not to draw a 1:1 ratio between the accidents of a prediction and their “coming true”. Rather it’s to draw, as it were, a 1:10 ratio between the accidents of the prediction and the new, more-full way they are manifested.
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Asleep in the Light
How do we balance the idea of “doig good for all” with the secular welfare state and the need to just fiscally support people?
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Behold Your Mother
SOMETHING FR Vincent said in his homily last night… Jesus says to John, behold your mother. The Church has taught that at that moment Jesus was speaking to all of us, that Mary is our mother. But there’s more. For we are the Body of Christ, commanded to carry our cross. This cross is not…
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Back to the Future
WAY BACK IN 1999, working for my first tech firm – called Online Partners – I was the first person in my office to get a flip phone. Sprint had these cool little models that looked like silver communicators from Star Trek. They had tiny little monochrome screens. I was walking by the store on…
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