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St. Hildegard von Bingen was a Benedictine nun, visionary mystic, community leader, scientist, writer, and musical composer. On this, the day of her…

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“An eye for an eye and eventually the whole world goes blind.” –Mohandas K. Gandhi This is one of those one-line quips that…

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Today’s first reading at the Office of Vigils was from Jonah 1:11-17. Nevertheless, the men rowed hard to bring the ship back to…

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Today’s reading is taken from 1 Maccabees 4:36-51. It’s found in the part of the Bible that Protestants refer to as the Apocrypha.…

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  Public domain. Retrieved from Wikimedia commons. This morning’s first reading at Vigils was from the Jewish prophet Obadiah 1:10-16. In this passage,…

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In this morning’s gospel reading, Jesus has a lot to say about the way we fight. He starts with the phrase “If another…

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Robin Stott [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons Today is the memorial of St. Gregory the Great, the Benedictine monk and Pope who was…

When my wife and I were in our first years of marriage, we didn’t have a lot of money. One Christmas, we decided not to buy gifts for one another, […]

I’d like you to imagine for a moment that you are a member of a small tribal village living in the depths of the Amazon. Your people have had little […]