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Admitting Failure to Family

When the family knows you don't pretend to have it all together, that you admit failure, that you're sorry and want to do better, they can handle ...


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A Difficult Prayer

Often it is through poverty of spirit that the wretched body so readily complains. Pray therefore humbly to the Lord that he may give you the spirit of ...


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Room to Improve

When a man is getting better, he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse, he understands his ...


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Listen Up, Long Ears

If one man calls you a donkey, pay him no mind. If two men call you a donkey, get a saddle.


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A Tidy Facade Can Hide Inner Death

When elderly Adele Gaboury turned up missing four years ago, concerned neighbors in Worcester, Massachusetts, informed the police. A brother told police ...


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Turn Around

Repentance is not basically a religious word. It comes from a culture where people were essentially nomadic and lived in a world with no maps or street ...


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Daily Reckoning

To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning.


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Don't Forget to Look Inside

There is certainly nothing wrong with the church looking ahead, but it is terribly important that it should be done in connection with the look inside, ...


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Victorious in Humility

Christianity is not one ideology over against other ideologies. It is a life inspired by the Holy Spirit. Its victories are nothing but victories over ...


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Wanted: Better Self-Critics

It would be wonderful if St. Augustine's kind of confessional self-scrutiny (or that of St. John of the Cross in his Dark Night of the Soul) would ...


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