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Mysticism for the Masses

March 15, 2025

When we open our hearts and quiet our minds, we can experience God’s presence in powerful ways. It starts with paying attention.

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Man in prison with a dove | Hasan Almasi via Unsplash

‘For I Was In Prison’: Building Bridges with Inmates

March 15, 2025
Developing a friendship with someone in prison through a pen-pal ministry could provide the seed for change and growth—for both parties.
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Mosaic of St. John of the Cross | Image by EUGENE PLAISTED, OSC

Meet Saint John of the Cross

March 14, 2025
Saint John of the Cross shows us how to be reflective in our distracting world.
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Sign for confession at church | Photo by Shalone Cason on Unsplash

My Clumsy Confession

March 14, 2025
An awkward encounter leads to a powerful spiritual experience.
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Pope John Paul I walks at the Vatican in 1978. The editorial director of Vatican News, Andrea Tornielli, wrote in a June 21 article that Archbishop Albino Luciani, the future Pope John Paul I, had hoped that Pope Paul VI would liberalize church teaching on artificial birth control, but when he didn't, the archbishop helped promote acceptance of "Humanae Vitae." (CNS file photo/L'Osservatore Romano)

John Paul I’s 33-Day Papacy

March 13, 2025
Though brief, Pope John Paul I’s papacy had a far-reaching influence on future Church leaders.
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This icon of the archangels is one of four new icons at Holy Eucharist Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral in New Westminster, British Columbia. The parish is working to sponsor the families of the iconographers, who are now in Poland after fleeing Ukraine. (CNS photo/Nicholas Elbers, B.C. Catholic)

Praying with Icons

March 13, 2025
We’re used to communicating to God through words, but icons have a special power.
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GOOD FRIDAY | Photo by Rui Silva sj on Unsplash

Embracing Good Friday

March 12, 2025
Every year on Good Friday I sit in the balcony of the campus chapel, behind a whopping oaken pillar, and I weep copiously at the sheer human pain and grace of the whole thing.
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