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Good Friday

Posted on April 14, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller
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"The key is to risk facing into the Good Friday’s that we inflict on others knowingly and unintentionally, to not detour around the agony in the gardens and the crucifixions that are occurring around us, and to admit to and repent for our complicity Read more [...]
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Holy Thursday

Posted on April 13, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller
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Jesus rose from supper and took off his outer garments. He took a towel and tied it around his waist. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet and dry them with the towel around his waist. . . . I have given you Read more [...]
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Wednesday of Holy Week

Posted on April 12, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller
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As a way of preparing to enter more fully into Triduum (Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday) which begins tomorrow, I invite you to take a look at this reflection: Triduum: The Story of Our Life in God from Holy Week of 2014. Read more [...]
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Tuesday of Holy Week – Can You Hear the Alleluia Ripening?

Posted on April 11, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller
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As the rhapsody of Springtime awakens the wildflowers from their sleep in the foothills by my home in a rare profusion of flower power, we turn the corner from the season of Lent toward our High Holy Days beginning Thursday Evening and culminating in Read more [...]
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Life-Line

Posted on April 10, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller
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Today's Life-Line is: The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried. ~ G. K. Chesterton Read more [...]
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The Authority of Love

Posted on April 5, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller
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At its core, the Christ-life specifically, and the spiritual life more broadly, involves the recentering of our subjectivity from self to God. In this conscious, ongoing, and radical realignment there is a dethroning of successive emperors who rule and Read more [...]
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Another Kind of Praise: A Life-Line

Posted on April 3, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller
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Today's Life-Line is: Praise is joy aimed at God. But when the heart breaks, when everything we taste is bitter as lemon pith, when all we have to offer the Holy One is vulnerability, fragility, regret, the poverty of our sorrow or grief, worry Read more [...]
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Life-Line

Posted on March 27, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller
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Today's Life-Line is: Faith is not a question of the existence or non-existence of God. It is believing that love without reward is valuable. ~ Emmanuel Levinas Read more [...]
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Life-Line

Posted on March 20, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller
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Today's Life-Line is: It is right it should be so Man was made for Joy & Woe And when this we rightly know Thro the World we safely go Joy & Woe are woven fine A Clothing for the soul divine Under every grief & pine Runs a joy with Read more [...]
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A Thousand Goodnesses

Posted on March 17, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller
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Christ beside me, Christ before me; Christ behind me, Christ within me; Christ beneath me, Christ above me; Christ to right of me, Christ to left of me; Christ in my lying, my sitting, my rising; Christ in heart of all who know me, Christ on tongue Read more [...]
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