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Category Archives: on Prayer and discipleship
O my soul: an éclaircissement
Despite at least two articles attempting to elucidate the human want for immortality, I have been again quizzed as to exactly what it is I think about “life after death.” If there were a simple answer, it would be I … Continue reading
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Reflections before the creche
We stand before a cattle shed. It is a bridge between nature and the homes, the hostels, the inns we make for our dwellings. Above it rise the heavens, stars twinkling and angels aglow. This humble shelter is a home … Continue reading
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on Dogma and Science
As a child I lived in a world of my own. Nothing mattered. Nothing interested, except things ecclesiastical. An introvert without challenge or society, I was adrift in my own fascinations, sedate in my own bathos. I found the concretization … Continue reading
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on Forbidden Carols, a response to the question “How can I sing it when I don’t believe it?”
I know several people who love Christmas and all the carols of the season. They are, however, continuously censoring themselves whenever its music fills their hearts. They feel hypocritical chanting away about virgins giving birth, the Font of All Being … Continue reading
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on Gnosticism, old and new
A number of the writings from the early Christian period were “lost” to us because they had been suppressed or destroyed. They were in some manner “put away” because they were considered to be deficient, if not overtly heretical, in … Continue reading
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on Bowing down to the Holy (on Time’s conclusion defended)
I must confess that of all I have said, I thought the use of the terms “bow down” and “submit” would be the least questionable. I believe man must always bow down or submit to something beyond or within him … Continue reading
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on making Disciples and Reaching out to the World
You ask about making disciples and having an impact on society. Consider that when Christ charges his followers to go out and make disciples of all nations, he tells them how: baptize. He is neither establishing a sacrament nor endorsing … Continue reading
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