True productivity and embracing the void
What new language are you learning? Have you planted a victory garden? How many books a week are you reading?
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by bcadmin | May 6, 2020 | Already/Not Yet, busyness, News, Picks, Productivity, To Home From Rome, True productivity | 0 |
What new language are you learning? Have you planted a victory garden? How many books a week are you reading?
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 8, 2020 | Easter victory, Featured, Holy Week/Easter, News, To Home From Rome | 0 |
by bcadmin | Mar 13, 2020 | almsgiving, Lent, News, Poverty, To Home From Rome, Works of Mercy | 0 |
Lent is marked by prayer and fasting, but also “almsgiving,” or works of mercy. Regarding this final category, Christ’s words in Matthew 25:40 are a clear foundation: “Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 11, 2020 | ad limina, Apostolic Palace, Hail Mary, Madonna, Mirth, News, Picks, Pope Francis, rosary, Seminarians, St. Phillip Neri, To Home From Rome | 0 |
Last month, the seminarians from Region 8 (Minnesota and the Dakotas) had the privilege of joining Archbishop Hebda, Bishop Cozzens, and the region’s other bishops for the beginning of their meeting with Pope Francis in the Apostolic Palace. After greeting each of us individually, the Holy Father shared some spiritual guidance with the gathered seminarians. “Keep your sense of humor, pray your rosary, and stay close to the Madonna,” he told us, before giving us his blessing.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 15, 2020 | Epiphany, Evangelization, News, Star, To Home From Rome, Yuletide solipsism | 0 |
Every year, by the grace of God, the gift of Christmas takes hold of me more completely. As my understanding of the Incarnation deepens and my gratitude for all God has done in my life grows, it becomes increasingly impossible to make sense of my life, who I am and what I am doing here, apart from the great love revealed and given in Christ’s incarnation. My life is a question that is incoherent and meaningless apart from the answer that is Jesus.
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