Six Ideas for Reclaiming Your Calendar (and Your Life)
As busy people with compounding responsibilities, isn’t it becoming more and more difficult to find time just to think? Commiserating with colleagues and friends, we share how our workdays are filled with an almost obsessed focus on getting as much wor…
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I have never been a quiet person. From the moment of my birth, my parents describe me as having “a good set of lungs.” It’s been a long-standing joke in my family of origin that I have, at times, been bossy and opinionated, but always loud. My voice carries well. As a writer, I have […]
Recently, I wrote an article about how we need to seek Our Lord in the Tabernacle as a response to a lack of listening on the part of the hierarchy. One of the criticisms was that we have to be able to talk to one another in order to listen and understand. This is true […]
Today we suffer from an onslaught of noise, and more than a little noise pollution! Not that noise is always bad, but it is true that the human heart, mind, and the soul longs for moments of silence. As we enter more deeply into Advent, now is a great time to learn to cultivate silence. That […]
One of the most admirable characteristics found in the life of Jesus Christ, our Master and our Model, is silence. All the mysteries of His mortal life and the ineffable mystery of His eucharistic life have this mark: the divine seal of silence. Holy Church tells us that Jesus came to this world in the […]
One of the universal complaints we as Catholics hear from others is that the Mass is boring. Perhaps at times we’ve even thought the same thing. People lament that they don’t get anything out of the Mass. Oftentimes we forget that the Mass is not so much about us as it is in giving right […]
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