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Ready to be blessed
We are asked throughout Advent to stay ready. For the next few weeks I invite you to reflect with me on the many forms of readiness. Quia Respexit For behold, all generations will call me blessed. I...
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Ready to be generous
We are asked throughout Advent to stay ready. For the next few weeks I invite you to reflect with me on the many forms of readiness. Like many young people, I went through a phase when I thought saying...
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Ready to risk
We are asked throughout Advent to stay ready. For the next few weeks I invite you to reflect with me on the many forms of readiness. What man among you having a hundred sheep and losing one of them...
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Ready to be peaceful
We are asked throughout Advent to stay ready. For these days of Advent I invite you to reflect with me on the many forms of readiness. I used to be the kind of person about whom people said “so young,...
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Keeping Advent
For someone who really likes to celebrate, I don’t get too fired up about my birthday. It’s just another day. I relish the Facebook messages and phone calls and occasional gifts, but I was never one to...
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Turn our darkness into light: An Advent Reflection
This is adapted from a reflection I gave for the Contemplative Leaders in Action‘s Boston Advent Prayer Service, December 1, 2016. O come, O Bright and Morning Star, and bring us comfort from afar!...
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Santa Lucia
My father had an Aunt Lucy who I, of course, also considered my aunt, and who died too young of cancer. Her wake and funeral were full of Italian family and friends, many of whom were women of a...
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Our powerless Jesus
Jesus came as a refugee baby. He lived as a religious minority, was distrusted and harassed by authorities and was executed by the state. If this were a movie made in the 21st century there would be...
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Your Advent guide to casting down the mighty
We enter into Advent at the end of a peculiar year, in a disorienting time. 2017 seems determined to draw to a close with non-stop revelations of powerful people treating others poorly. Most of these...
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Make straight his paths
When I was 5 my family moved into an old farmhouse on a large patch of land, replete with a barn and lots of wildlife in the back lot. Unfortunately some of the wildlife had become comfortable inside...
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