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Advent and Christmas Retreat: Christmas Time, First Week

Jim Manney

Merry Christmas! We continue our seasonal retreat by reflecting on Christmas. Please share your retreat experience with others here in the comments. Christmas Time, First...

A Boy Named Ambition

Tim Muldoon

Where is Christ being born today? It certainly isn't where we expect, if history is any guide. Where, today, is that stable at the...

Annunciations All the Time

Jim Manney

My wife disturbed my Advent bliss a couple of days ago when she showed me a poem. I had been sailing along smoothly, humming...

Silence

Tim Muldoon

The most basic spiritual practice is learning silence. Practicing silence is an act of faith precisely because one cannot know for certain that anything...

Gabriel Is Surprised

Jim Manney

Fr. Jim Martin, SJ, notes something unusual in a Renaissance depiction of the Annunciation: Mary is surprised, but the angel Gabriel seems to be...

Advent Retreat: The Fourth Week of Advent

Jim Manney

We've arrived at the final week of Advent. If you are following along with our Advent retreat, here is a brief reflection to begin...

Waiting

Tim Muldoon

Advent is the season when we remind ourselves of what we are waiting for, keeping at bay the voices which tell us that our...

Releasing Our Captives

Jim Manney

I like Phil Fox's Rose's column on practical spirituality on BustedHalo.com. Recently he wrote an article about the Examen in which he quoted this...

Prayer on the Run

Vinita Hampton Wright

I can pray as I bake this pie peeling the apples rolling the dough sprinkling the sugar making it right. This is my work of love, Lord. Bless the ones...