Posted in Spirituality on 30 September 2007 | 5 Comments »
For anyone with some experience with Ignatian spirituality, you probably recognize the title of this post as the beginning of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius. I’ve prayed with this from time to time in the years that have passed since my 30-day retreat, and it still speaks to me. Here’s a brief excerpt and [...]
Posted in Catholic, Justice on 27 September 2007 | No Comments »
Sr. Joan Chittister, OSB, has a weekly column on NCRCafe. I’m having a pretty brutal week with my workload, so rather than not post anything, I thought I’d point you to her Sept. 17 post. She is writing of the crisis that the worldwide Anglican Communion is facing these days. I leave you with the [...]
Posted in Catholic, Spirituality, tagged Catholic, religion, scripture, Spirituality on 23 September 2007 | 5 Comments »
Anyone else out there just not able to get today’s Gospel reading? I do plan to look this up and see if I can figure it out, but on face value, this Gospel passage seems quite cryptic to me. On one hand Jesus says, “I tell you, make friends for yourselves with dishonest wealth, [...]
Posted in Spirituality on 21 September 2007 | 5 Comments »
I find myself waking after a rather short night. I was up late grading reports, and then woke up early in a fair amount of turmoil about something going on at work. I can’t really blog the specifics, but I feel it will help me to describe the general nature of my turmoil.
For those of [...]
Posted in Spirituality on 18 September 2007 | No Comments »
I sometimes wonder if my cute, cryptic post headings make people want to read on…
Anyway, the title of this post is inspired by something I’ve kind gotten myself into without really knowing what I was saying yes to. Don’t worry, it’s a good thing…
I may have mentioned in an earlier post that since I’m not [...]
Posted in Nun, Spirituality on 14 September 2007 | 4 Comments »
…our newest sister-novelist! Linda Rettstatt is one of my CSJ sisters who has recently had a novel published. I haven’t read it yet, but you can get it electronically for $6 at Wings ePress. Here’s a link to Linda’s website. She’s got a couple more in the works. The kind of writing I have [...]
Posted in Random thoughts, Spirituality on 11 September 2007 | 2 Comments »
I’m having a bit of a rough start to the week, having just made it for the first time through the complete weekly cycle of courses I teach this term. And yesterday, it was just making it by the skin of my teeth - not the most satisfying feeling. I won’t go into details, but [...]
Posted in Spirituality on 11 September 2007 | 4 Comments »
…where you were when you learned about the attacks on 9/11/2001?
I remember a brief car ride coming home from the gym before heading off on my bike for the office. The radio was on NPR, and for some reason, whatever they were saying at the moment (it was probably before we really knew what was [...]
Posted in Catholic, Spirituality on 7 September 2007 | 13 Comments »
Thanks to Stephen, who I just promoted to the role of guest blogger (without his specific permission, but I think he’ll be ok with it… 
for starting a new thread in a lively discussion that DJC kicked off a couple of days ago. Here’s what Stephen has to say. I hope you’ll join us in [...]
Posted in Spirituality on 6 September 2007 | 3 Comments »
A while back, we had a bit of a conversation going about virtual relating and loneliness, started by Kari, my first guest blogger.
Recently, I’ve been hearing hype about a phenomenon called “Second Life.” From the Second Life website:
Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its Residents. Since opening to [...]
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