Daily Archives: 21 July 2018

GeE 112: Perseverance, Patience, and Meekness

We delve deeper into Gaudete et Exsultate with an extended look into some qualities linked closely with holiness: Perseverance, Patience and Meekness. On perseverance: 112. The first of these great signs is solid grounding in the God who loves and sustains us. … Continue reading

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What A Difference A Day Makes

In the old days, I’d be gone for a week or two–camping or on retreat–and some news item would explode. Events like the Nixon capitulation in ’74, Elvis in ’77, or Oklahoma City in 1995. I took a pilgrimage day … Continue reading

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Aparecida 487-488: The Internet

487. Viewed from within the entire range of media, the Internet should be understood to be, as expressed earlier at Vatican II, one of the “wonderful technological discoveries.”(Inter Mirifica 1). The first word, from some years before it was invented, … Continue reading

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