Falling in Love

(In honor of St. Valentine’s day and the season of Lent, I thought I would share a quote that my professor of Systematic theology gave us last year at the end of the semester. )
Nothing is more practical than finding God, that is,
than falling in Love in a quite absolute way.
What you are in [...]

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The True Essence of a Woman

A new birth control pill that eliminates a woman’s menstrual cycles was approved recently by the FDA. What are some of the critics saying?
But some critics say the elimination of a period as a “lifestyle choice” could be bad for women’s health. “Menstrual suppression is unnatural,” health psychologist Paula Derry wrote in an editorial in [...]

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Rain and the Christian Paradox

I used to like it when it rained. Curling up on a comfortable chair and drinking hot tea or hot chocolate by the window while it rained outside. Perhaps even reading a good book. It used to be so enjoyable when it rained. But then I remembered a song that my [...]

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Music leads to God

Pope Benedict XVI said yesterday that
[Music] has the power to lead us back … to the Creator of all harmony, creating a resonance within us which is like being in tune with the beauty and truth of God, with the reality which no human knowledge or philosophy can ever express.”
This post seems appropriate on a [...]

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Contemplation vs. Progress

(Here is a post I wrote while I was in Washington State. Here in Houston we don’t get many chances to contemplate nature ;) I should clarify that as lay people, I think, we are called to be contemplatives in action, rather than passive contemplatives and that is what I refer to in this [...]

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