A Down-to-Earth Prosaic Place — That’s a Monastery
The monastery as St Benedict describes it is a workshop. It is not the paradise of the cloister.
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Author: Brother Mark Dohle
The Woman In a Wheelchair
It was a Saturday afternoon, around 2 pm when Roseanne notified me that she received a phone call from a woman in distress. My first reaction was not to respond to the call….
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The Hidden Drama Within Each of Us
Until one day, it has not happened yet, my heart will finally break open and I will experience what has always been there, a love beyond telling.
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The Las Vegas Tragedy — Are We In a Free Fall?
When we see something on the screen, even if we do not want to admit it, takes on a form of entertainment when watching.
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Looking Leviathan In the Face
Yesterday, Leviathan came up suddenly, bit me, and dragged me deep into my own inner hell.
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No brake function on the highway of our lives (Jesus promised that those who seek shall find)
I don’t want to die suddenly. I believe that the ‘last mile’ is the most important time of life.
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Trying Another Kind of Love
Our lives if spent failing to love others the way God wants us to only leads to more pain, death and destruction. He wants us to try another way.
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A Beggar Off I-75, Near the Cleveland Avenue Exit
He does not try to hide his brokenness, what life has done to him, probably would be honest about his own compliance in letting it happen, if asked.
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My Bickering Spirit Is Healed By a Breaking Heart
I have no answers on how to deal with the seeming cultural surrender to endless bickering. I do know that when this happens, those on both sides, in the end, only wound themselves and destroy their inner peace.
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Pope Francis and the Lives of Others
The world has always been a rough, messy, cruel, going-to-hell-in-a hand-basket kind of place, yet Christ Jesus came to us, loves us, and when we pray we are to open up our hearts to all
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