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People do change.   Their base personality and faculties define who they are, not their behavior.  Behavior is something we do, not who we are.  The man I was in my twenties is not the man I am now, nor am I the man I hope to be ten  yearsContinue Reading

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As a man who is discerning a call to diaconate tomorrow’s first reading really speaks to me about that call.    The most amazing part to me is how skillfully Luke has worded the death of the first Christian Martyr, Saint Stephen, to show how it mirrored the very death ofContinue Reading

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The last few days I’ve talked about what Ordinary Time is (this post) and how that it begins to order our lives toward Christ (this post.)  That’s what our liturgy is about.  The liturgical year is ordered in a way to bring the Christian’s prayer life into a basic rhythm,Continue Reading