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      Continuing Friendship in the Easter Season

      Gretchen Crowder
      I have a confession to make. I tend to forget about Jesus around a week or so into the Easter season each year. It is…
      Spiritual Exercises

      Joy Leads to Our Next Steps

      dotMagis Editor
      This post is based on Week Eight of An Ignatian Prayer Adventure. In the Fourth Week of the Spiritual Exercises, we reflect on the Resurrection…
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      Assuming Failure

      dotMagis Editor
      For all the healing and hope Jesus had brought to perhaps thousands of people, there was no sign by this time that he had…
      Spiritual Exercises

      Accompaniment and Compassion

      dotMagis Editor
      This post is based on Week Seven of An Ignatian Prayer Adventure. In the Third Week of the Spiritual Exercises, we meditate on the Passion…
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    Meredith Gould

    Meredith Gould, PhD, is the author of seven books, including The Catholic Home: Celebrations and Traditions for Holidays, Feast Days, and Every Day, Why Is There a Menorah on the Altar? Jewish Roots of Christian Worship, and The Word Made Fresh: Communicating Church and Faith Today. She serves on the team at The Virtual Abbey and founded the Twitter chat for church social media (#chsocm).
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    It’s a Mitzvah

    Seems to me the word "mitzvah" is being used a lot these days. Usually it shows up in exclamations: "It's a mitzvah." Maybe I'm noticing this because the recent preponderance...
    Meredith Gould
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    Today’s News . . .

    Many years ago, I went on a news fast.  To be more precise, I stopped reading, watching or listening to any and all news from 1988 through 1993-ish. Can't...
    Meredith Gould
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    Praying from the Heart

    Exaggeration or reality? There's not a person of faith--dead or alive--who hasn't at some point trudged through a desert landscape of dusty dry and somewhat dessicated prayer. By grace, our...
    Meredith Gould
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    Lent. Is it over yet?

    Lent?  Not a big fan of this season, even though I'm very fond of purple, love soup and rarely pass up opportunities to ponder great mysteries. During Lent I...
    Meredith Gould
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    Lenten Shabbat

    Lenten...Shabbat?In my strange little world these words go together just fine, possibly because my Jewish mother was as likely to serve fish as she was to serve roasted chicken...
    Meredith Gould
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    Lent and My Big Birthday

    I'm having one of those so-called milestone birthdays in a few weeks. On Ash Wednesday. If my birthday wasn't coinciding with the beginning of Lent, I'd probably ignore it. ...
    Meredith Gould
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