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Rolheiser: What is love asking of me now?

June 21, 2021

Because of the Covid restrictions this year, I have often celebrated some form of the Eucharist virtually. At first, leading those services, my thought was, what’s the value of a Eucharistic prayer if there is to be no communion? In the Eucharist, we don’t just eat the bread of life, we also die and rise with Christ.

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Rolheiser: A Eucharistic Prayer

June 14, 2021

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Rolheiser: Home

June 7, 2021

Sex can never be simply casual, purely recreational, something which does not touch the soul. Sex always touches the soul, for good or for bad. It’s either sacramental or harmful. It’s either building up the soul or tearing it apart. When it’s right, it’s making you a better person and when it’s wrong, it’s making you less of a person.

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Rolheiser: Losing the song in the singer

May 31, 2021

When the focus of the audience is more on our personalities than on the song, we are probably making love more to ourselves and our admirers than to the song.

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Rolheiser: The binding power of hatred

May 24, 2021

We cannot make someone stop hating us, but we can refuse to hate him or her and, at that moment, hatred loses its power to bind and punish us. Granted, this isn’t easy, certainly not emotionally. Hatred tends to have a sick, devilish grip on us, paralyzing in us the very strength we need to let it go. In that case, there’s still another salvific thing remaining. God can do things for us that we cannot do for ourselves.

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Rolheiser: Rich Kids Growing Up Without Money – or Understanding

May 17, 2021

Henri Nouwen’s story and his writings highlight his struggles, not just his virtue and wisdom. Knowing the earthiness of his struggles can give the impression that there is less in him to admire than in someone like Mother Teresa. Perhaps. But, in Nouwen we see someone we can more easily imitate.

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Rolheiser: A Saint for Our Time

May 10, 2021

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Rolheiser: The Eyes of Love

May 3, 2021

Whom are we really loving when we have feelings of love? The other? Ourselves? The archetype and energy the other is carrying? Our own fantasy of that person? The feelings this experience is triggering inside us?

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Rolheiser: Our Heart is Stronger than Our Wounds

April 26, 2021

All of us are weak and break down sometimes. However, and this is the point, when the storms of life overpower us, when we reach down for strength to withstand the storm only to find out that the storm is stronger than we are, we need then to reach still deeper and there we will find that God’s heart is stronger than our brokenness.

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Rolheiser: The origin of our conflicts and differences

April 19, 2021

What is the root cause when people are at odds with each other and there is no insincerity or sin involved, when both parties are honest and God-fearing? Today we speak of ideological differences, historical differences, political differences, and personal history as to why sincere people often see the world differently and are at odds with each other.

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