A New Take on Lenten Fasting
Kyle Kramer
February 26, 2021
As a zealous young man, I often undertook pretty extreme examples of Lenten fasting.
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Kyle Kramer
Kyle Kramer is executive director of the Passionist Earth and Spirit Center in Louisville, Kentucky. He is a regular contributor to St. Anthony Messenger and the author of Making Room: Soul-Deep Satisfaction through Simple Living (Franciscan Media).
Repairers of the Breach: A Meditation on America
Kyle Kramer
January 11, 2021
I believe—I choose and keep choosing to believe—that God wants us to be one and will help us on that path.
Battling the Darkness
Kyle Kramer
November 4, 2020
To paraphrase Dante’s famous opening lines from the Inferno, I find myself “within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.”
Proudly Patriotic
Kyle Kramer
October 6, 2020
An anti-immigration wave is washing over America and much of the Western world. This wave often drowns out the sensible voices of our pope and bishops, who teach that we must create “a world where immigrants, refugees, migrants, and people on the move are treated with dignity, respect, welcome, and belonging. “
Crisis and Crossroads
Kyle Kramer
October 4, 2020
COVID-19 is still wreaking havoc on communities across the country. I have no way of knowing what will happen next week or next month.
The Power of Home
Kyle Kramer
September 15, 2020
This fall marks six years since my family and I sold our 27-acre organic farm and the house we had designed and built ourselves—the place my wife and I thought we’d call home our entire lives.
Stop. Listen. Learn.
Kyle Kramer
August 27, 2020
Earlier this year, I adopted a “sit-spotting ” nature meditation practice, which I wish I’d started doing a long time ago.
Every other morning, before dawn, I hike back into the forest behind our rural home, to a secluded spot where a spring-fed stream tumbles down layers of exposed limestone. I sit there for about half an hour, watching a small stretch of the stream and listening to the sounds of the water and the woodland. I journal for a bit, then I hike back home.