And then one day I was on stage doing an improv show, and in the middle of a scene, it occurred to me: Maybe I’ve done all of this for different reasons than I thought. “I think I’m going to be a priest,” I said after the show. “I think I’m going to be a [...]
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From time to time, we feel the need to understand better what our gifts are. I think this is particularly true at certain stages of life. There’s a big surge toward our giftedness during adolescence, when many of us discover that we like music or can paint or write stories or play basketball well. What’s [...]
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What I like about this song is its honesty: “I still haven’t found what I’m looking for.” The singer proclaims this even though he believes “in the kingdom come,” even though he knows that “you broke the bonds and loosed the chains, you carried the cross and all my shame.” In other words, we will [...]
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The Spiritual Exercises ask us to look at Christ and what he stands for. We’re instructed to imagine him as a good king who brings his forces against the evil king. In today’s world, especially here in the West, we don’t think much in terms of kings and kingdoms. So this imagery can be difficult [...]
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Sometimes the Christian journey is framed in terms of making a decision, a commitment, to follow Jesus and his way. But we don’t live strictly by decisions, acts of the will. We don’t just make up our mind and do a certain thing. A deeper part of the self must be involved when it comes [...]
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