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Lent Day 29… Like A Toddler Driving A Tractor

Brian Dolleman — Mon, 03 Apr 2017 15:34:50 +0000

“Sensible people, of course, should need only about thirty seconds of careful thought to realize that getting off scot-free is the only way any of us is going to get off at all. But if all we can think of is God as the Eternal Bookkeeper putting down black marks against sinners—or God as the […]

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Lent Day 23… On Care For Our Common Home

Brian Dolleman — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 14:18:23 +0000

This beautiful prayer is Pope Francis’ “Laudato si” (On Care For Our Common Home)… All-powerful God, you are present in the whole universe and in the smallest of your creatures. You embrace with your tenderness all that exists. Pour out upon us the power of your love, that we may protect life and beauty. Fill […]

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A Few New Beatitudes For Today

Brian Dolleman — Wed, 23 Nov 2016 13:00:27 +0000

Leonard Sweet shared the following… While in Sweden for an All Saints Day mass, Pope Francis proposed Six New Beatitudes for the 21st century church. These were meant not to replace the biblical ones, which he called the “identity card” of the saint, but to point to how the original beatitudes might be expanded and […]

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Saving Quotes

Brian Dolleman — Sat, 09 Jul 2016 17:01:13 +0000

* pictured above: the town of Assisi, Italy —July 2013 I save quotes. In my phone. On my computer. Folders of them. Ever-growing, constantly adding. And there are times when I need them. When all the world seems to be busting apart at the seams, all hell breaking loose. When my peace has run away […]

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Tribalism: Seeing Others As Not Fully Human

Brian Dolleman — Thu, 24 Sep 2015 17:50:39 +0000

Let all guests who arrive be received like Christ, for He is going to say, “I came as a guest, and you received me.” —Rule of St Benedict I squirm whenever I hear someone talking about “The gays…” or “The Muslims…” or “The illegal immigrants…” or ”The Catholics…” or “The whatevers.” Sure, it probably has something […]

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Catholics Aren’t Christian

Brian Dolleman — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 17:08:06 +0000

Growing up in Pentecostal church, I picked up on this idea: Catholics aren’t Christians. The typical charges against them were things like praying to Mary, worshiping the Pope, praying to the saints, and elevating the teachings of saints and church leaders to the same level as Scripture. They also had cool necklaces – and I […]

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