Posts in Spirituality

On Divine Mercy Sunday three generations of a family – grandma, mom, and little girl – sat in the pew ahead of Joe Simmons, SJ. A drama of mercy unfolded.

Feeling a little jealous of all the attention Rossmann was getting for his 11 spiritual Spin lessons, Brendan Busse offers a brotherly riposte.

I aspire to be a morning person, but liking the idea is usually as far as I go. Still, I take comfort in the simple, daily ritual of Mass…

I’m absolutely pathetic at being sneaky. As far as I can remember, I’ve only ever pulled off one major surprise on a family member…

But there’s a problem with knowing “I already am who I am meant to be.” It’s incomplete. A kind of moral inertia sets in…

Minneapolis has a lot of paths around her lakes, and they attract an interesting mix of people. I often wonder, as I make way along the lake paths, what goes through their hearts and minds…

What is glorious? To find ourselves lifted above the clouds and into the light, to experience ourselves aloft and to notice, in the clouds below, our ever-present shadow. Only this time to see that shadow surrounded by a rainbow of light…

I admit it – I’m a sucker for a good old-fashioned bell tower. This past Sunday, my mind was wandering when suddenly a single, sobering bell tolled, chasing away my wandering thoughts…

At the end of the summer my plane lifted off, following the Brahmaputra River toward the Himalayas. The sun reflected off the flooded rice paddies far below, and the wide valley sparkled like a vast and broken mirror…

In all my well-intentioned hand-wringing, I indulged in the old platitude about “how far we have to go.” But here’s the problem: when I think “we,” what I really mean is “they”…