Advent: The Tender Heart and the Unreasonable Thing

Posted on December 2, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Today, December 2, 2016, marks the 36th Anniversary of the Martyrdom of the four US Catholic Missionaries in El Salvador who stood with the thousands of El Salvadoran people who themselves were martyred for the cause of justice and the gospel of life. Today Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on September 19, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: There are many things that can only be seen through eyes that have cried. ~ Oscar Romero Read more [...]

The Love that Returns

Posted on May 13, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Most, if not all of you, are familiar with the story in Luke 15: 11-32 typically called the parable of the prodigal son. Those of you who have read what I have written or heard me speak on this passage know that I feel it has been misnamed. It would be Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on May 9, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Today’s Life-Line is: Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally arrives. Hope that you might have baked it or bought or even kneaded it yourself. For that look on his face, for your Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on February 29, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

When the Nazis came to get the Communists, I was silent, because I was not a Communist. When they came to get the Socialists, I was silent. When they came to get the Catholics, I was silent. When they came to get the Jews, I was silent. And when they Read more [...]

Passing Over, Coming Back Anew

Posted on November 12, 2014 by Daniel J. Miller

Gus Zuehlke, a friend and former student of John S. Dunne, spent some time at Father Dunne’s hospital bedside and reported on his visit in a post to Notre Dame Magazine: “As I was silently praying in John’s room, a nurse walked in and said to me, Read more [...]

Widening the Circle of Compassion

Posted on March 9, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

Recently I was in Louisville, Kentucky and I had the urge to ask the airport cabbie to take me to Fourth and Walnut (now 4th and Muhammad Ali Boulevard) where Thomas Merton had his famous epiphany. But since it was late at night and dark, and I did not Read more [...]

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Category Archives: Compassion

Advent: The Tender Heart and the Unreasonable Thing

Life-Line

The Love that Returns

Life-Line

Life-Line

Passing Over, Coming Back Anew

Widening the Circle of Compassion