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- Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. It is a choice based on the…
- If you feel a great loneliness and a deep longing for human contact, you have to be extremely discerning...and ask yourself whether this situation is…
- Fundraising is a very rich and beautiful activity. It is a confident, joyful and hope-filled expression of ministry. In ministering to each other, each from…
- Silence is a very concrete, practical, and useful discipline in all our ministerial tasks. It can be seen as a portable cell taken with us from…
- Ministers are tempted to join the ranks of those who consider it their primary task to keep other people busy … But our task is…
- Jesus' whole life and mission involve accepting powerlessness and revealing in this powerlessness the limitlessness of God's love. Here we see what compassion means. It…
- The mystery of the spiritual life is that Jesus desires to meet us in the seclusion of our own heart, to make his love known…
- When we become aware that we do not have to escape our pains, but that we can mobilize them into a common search for life,…
- Patience asks us to live the moment to the fullest, to be completely present to the moment, to taste the here and now, to be…
- The pain that comes from deep love makes your love more fruitful. It is like a plow that breaks the ground to allow the seed…
- Community is first of all a quality of the heart. It grows from the spiritual knowledge that we are alive not for ourselves but for…
- To be baptized means to make the passage with the people of Israel and with Jesus from slavery to freedom and from death to new…
- Be surprised by joy, be surprised by the little flower that shows its beauty in the midst of a barren desert, and be surprised by…
- Our brokenness has no other beauty but the beauty that comes from the compassion that surrounds it.
- The more we touch the intimate love of God which creates, sustains, and guides us, the more we recognize the multitude of fruits that come…
- From the moment we claim the truth of being the beloved, we are faced with the call to become who we are.
- Everything changes radically from the moment you know yourself as being sent into this world.
- The truth, even though I cannot feel it right now, is that I am the chosen child of God, precious in God's eyes, called the…
- It's not easy to sit and trust that in solitude God will speak to you - not as a magical voice but that God will…
- As long as our restlessness, anxiety, and feelings of guilt dominate our work as peacemakers we cannot last long. But when we have opened each…
- The crisis of our prayer life is that our minds may be filled with ideas of God while our hearts remain far from him.
- The Church will always be renewed when our attention shifts from ourselves to those who need our care. The blessing of Jesus always comes to…
- We are called to be fruitful - not successful, not productive, not accomplished. Success comes from strength, stress, and human effort. Fruitfulness comes from vulnerability…
- Every time I take a step in the direction of generosity, I know I am moving from fear to love.
- The immense joy in welcoming back the lost son hides in the immense sorrow that has gone before....our brokenness may appear beautiful, but our brokenness…
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