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LENT: Week five, Thursday – Heartfulness
When you hear the word “mindfulness” if you’re not in some sense automatically hearing the word “heartfulness” you’re misunderstanding it. And mindfulness in any event is not a concept; it’s a way of...
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LENT: Week five, Friday – How the light gets in
Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering there is a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in. – Leonard Cohen, Anthem “While today the word humility may connote a placid...
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LENT: Week five, Saturday – Dancing with God
“‘The voyage was not without reward for Alan,’ Marc said. ‘But we are left with Anne’s question. Why would God bring him all this way only to die now?’ He paused and looked at Sofia before continuing....
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LENT: Week six, Sunday – Church
On the whole, I do not find Christians, outside the catacombs, sufficiently sensible of the conditions. Does any-one have the foggiest idea what sort of power we so blithely invoke? Or, as I suspect,...
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LENT: Week six, Monday – Discipline
Are there any disciplines to keep us moving from dividing power to uniting power, from destructive power to healing power, from paralyzing power to enabling power? Let me suggest three disciplines...
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LENT: Week six, Tuesday – Belonging
Early-stage religion is more about belonging and believing than about transformation. When belonging and believing are the primary concerns, people don’t see their need for growth, healing, or basic...
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LENT: Week six, Wednesday – You don’t have that kind of time
When I was 38, my best friend, Pammy, died, and we went shopping about two weeks before she died, and she was in a wig and a wheelchair. I was buying a dress for this boyfriend I was trying to...
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LENT: Week six, Thursday – Recollection
Sometimes from sorrow, for no reason, you sing. For no reason, you accept the way of being lost, cutting loose from all else and electing a world where you go where you want to. Arbitrary, sound...
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LENT: Week six, Good Friday – Salvation
Many years ago now, when I was invited to speak at a church gathering, my host said, “Tell us what is saving your life now.” It was such a good question that I have made a practice of asking others to...
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HOUSE NEWS: Welcome back! Lenten practices and the passing of a GCW friend
Click here to see an entire list of what is happening this week at the Gainesville Catholic Worker. WELCOME BACK: We hope that many of you were able to enjoy Spring Break last week and we look forward...
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