
Olympic Games Ended: A Meditation on Sport & Competition
Today (Sunday) marks the end of the Paris Olympic Games. By the time you read this, many people will have seen the final ceremony, heard the
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Today (Sunday) marks the end of the Paris Olympic Games. By the time you read this, many people will have seen the final ceremony, heard the

In yesterday’s DM, I cited Jesus who told us to “Behold the lilies of the field” and their beauty. I offered some examples of our learning to

April 8, 2024: Can the Best of Humanity Please Show Up?In an op-ed article in the New York Times, Jose Andres, founder of World Central

We began the week meditating on the Solar Eclipse that many experienced as a mystical experience. Mystics—including all of us—are people in touch with the Via

Thomas Aquinas teaches that despair is the “most dangerous” of all sins. It is not the worst—injustice is—but it is the most dangerous. Why? Because when a person

T. S. Eliot says this about the mystics: “Mystics are the only hope—or else despair.” The mystic offers medicine for despair and confronts it–despair in oneself,

This is Holy Week and today is Holy Thursday. Holy Week is more of a liturgical art form to remind us of the events surrounding Jesus’s

Hildegard sees creativity at the core of our vocation as human beings, and pictures God saying, I have been moved by the form of humankind, I

According to Aquinas, Joy is born of Love. That is why joy is an anchor when struggle, strife and suffering swirl all around us. Aquinas teaches

May 1, 2023. Pleasure & Holiness, ContinuedMatthew continues the theme he launched the earlier week, that contrasted the punitive, judgmental God of patriarchy, with a
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