He had a Way with Animals

(A reflection on Columba) Although one has plentiful pickings when reflecting on the hagiography of Columba – he is famous for founding the monastery on

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Practicing Loving-kindness

Practicing Loving Kindness: STTS June 8, 2023 In the reading from Genesis this weekend (Genesis 18:1-15), we find Abraham to be an example of hospitality,

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Attention

“At first, the practice of ‘Attention, attention, attention’ is a struggle. We learn how much complicity we have had with the dark. We turn toward

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Holy Splendor

by Molly Bosch This past week brought grief heavily upon me with the shocking news that a dear friend and colleague had died unexpectedly. For

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The Power of Memories

Grief and memory go together. After someone dies, that’s what you’re left with. And the memories are so slippery yet so rich. – Mike Mills,

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Dreaming a Mystery

“For God speaks…though people do not perceive it.In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on mortals, while they slumber

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AfterGlow

Genesis 1:1-2:4a; Psalm 8 In the beginning there was light. As the first flash of light danced at creation, and the gravid Earth burst into song, as

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The Visitation

I love that, for a moment, you embraced, neither wondering how the other came to be in her loosened state, knowing next to nothing of the contractions to

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Gifts of the Spirit

There is something heart-expanding about the Pentecost story. The followers of Jesus, formed by three years of teachings and healings, by the experience of his

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