Why are we here? I don’t mean why are we here in this church, or why are we in Saint Louis, MO (or wherever you are) instead of some other place. The question is “why are we HERE?”; why are we alive? What is our purpose? In the thousands of years of human existence there [...]
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Just a short post today on the topic of discernment. To paraphrase Father Thomas Merton, God never gives us the whole answer. He reveals the truth to us in pieces, but the sum of the pieces never equals the whole because, if He told us exactly what He wants us to do, we would have [...]
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Signs, signs, everywhere signs. It’s always been my experience that God speaks to me in subtle ways. I know people who have been spoken to clearly, but for me, not so much. When I was in formation for the diaconate some of my classmates were told, in no uncertain terms, that they had been chosen [...]
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