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Lighthouses are powerful symbols of hope for us in the midst of the dark and stormy times of our lives. They remind us that even though we are groping along, trying to find our way, the Spirit of God is always present to us and ready to guide us like a beacon guides a ship home. . . .
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It’s springtime here at the Monastery…or at least it’s trying to be! Duluth weather and the “lake effect” say otherwise sometimes: springtime warmth in February, snow in March, and rain in April. Most of the trees . . .
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. . . Do sheep possess particular qualities that Jesus wanted his followers to identify with and deepen in? And why were sheep to be separated from goats (Matt. 25:31-33)? . . .
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. . . Often when faced with a cross, we become emotionally and physically overwhelmed by the Passion and Death aspects. We forget that a resurrection is hidden mysteriously within every cross of our human lives. . . .
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. . . I carefully walked through the house to my old room. My eyes scanned the room until they met with the crucifix that hung on the wall. The crucifix had been my mother’s, and her mother’s before her. There it was – still hanging on the wall in the midst of the destruction. Now the black wood of the cross was covered in mold. . . .
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When I first became an Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion in 2005, I served at a privately owned hospital in uptown New Orleans. During my orientation at the hospital, I met an elderly religious of the Sisters of the Holy Family. . . .
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