Joy and a Crucified Heart
So I’m sitting in the chapel this morning (on the feast of the Sacred Heart) praying and the question sort of pops into my head: how can you find or…
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Eric Gilhooly, LC
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Our Daily Dust
On Ash Wednesday we hear, “Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” The words remind me where I’ve come from: God’s own hand drew man from…
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Meditations on the Way of the Cross
For Lent, RC Spirituality has published my Meditations on the Way of the Cross and Fr John Bartunek made an amazing audio recording. In Meditations on the Way of the Cross, I…
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Coco y la comunión de los santos
En su film Coco, Pixar nos abre el mundo de la creencia pre-colonial del Día de los Muertos. Miguel, el protagonista, quiere ser músico, pero la música es prohibida en…
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Coco and the Communion of Saints
With its film Coco, Pixar opens up the world of pre-colonial Mexican belief in the Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). Miguel, the main character, longs to be a…
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The Hunger Games: A Survival Guide
—“When the gong sounds, get the hell out of there. You’re neither of you up to the blood bath at the Cornucopia. Just clear out, put as much distance as…
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Everything
Lord, help me to tune out all that isn’t you. I don’t want to be a radio whose dial keeps spinning so there’s no way to hear any one thing…
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Channel for Grace
My Jesus, my Life, you call me through the quiet mountain breeze, through the cry of the hawk and the waving grasses. Your voice reaches me through an endless horizon…
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Death and the Númenóreans: Is This Life All There Is?
In Tolkien’s world of Arda, elves are the elder children of Ilúvatar, also known as the One. Elves receive the gift of immortality and their spirits will remain with the…
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Deeper Towards God
Deeper. What does it mean to go deeper, to be a profound person? I believe that it simply means to have grown in our relationship with God—he knows us best,…
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Ink, Time, Reality
I just got my 2017 day-planner the other day. Yes, it’s a three-dimensional, paper-and-cardboard entity that many would consider more than outdated. So what? I’m still with one foot in…
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Wings of a Bird
Lord, you and I both know that there’s more to life than running around with my nose close to the ground, chasing after this or that goal, racing to beat…
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Separated Brothers and Sisters, Forgive Us! A Letter from Paul VI
I recently discovered this letter written by Pope Paul VI in 1957 back when he was cardinal of Milan, just six years before his election as pope. He writes this letter…
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I Do Pity Him: Finding the Crux of “The Lord of the Rings”
At the center of a good story lies a key action that defines the whole work and that depends on a specific value and worldview. Like an onion, it has…
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Paul Claudel: Stations of the Cross
Here’s a new translation I made of Paul Claudel’s stations of the cross. It’s a beautiful prayer and I hope it helps you this Lent! I put the first station’s…
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