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Thornton Wilder’s play Our Town attempts to find the value, above any price, of the smallest event in daily life. Emily, having just died, asks for and receives permission to…

The concepts of “cyberspace” and “virtual reality” are as familiar for us now as “Morse code” and “radio waves” were in the past. We can “google” the geography of any…

Single or married, young or old, male or female, we humans enter the world and depart from it alone. No matter who we are or what we do, we have…

The work we do in fidelity to the person we are radiates our calling in the Lord and our commitment to follow him. Our life is a harmonious blending of…

A voice cries out: In the wilderness prepare The way of the Lord, And make straight in the desert A highway for our God. --Isaiah 40:30 The quest for solitude,…

…obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always to the end of the age (Mt 28:20). The virtue of obedience invites us to listen to God’s inviting,…

Human freedom does not mean doing what we want to do when we want to do it. Our freedom is always situated and limited. A man born and raised in…

Observing the carefree play of children on a summer’s day awakens a sense of lost innocence in all of us. How is it that we have become so earnest about…

Have you ever said to yourself or heard others say, “I can’t meditate. I don’t know how my mind races here and there, no matter how hard I try to…