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Digging Local Clay
by Richard Bresnahan
In the Rule of Saint Benedict, it says that you should treat your everyday tools as instruments of the altar. I translate that as saying every tool or material that you use, if it has been shaped by a human hand and cared for, is a sacred object.
For the Love of God and Family
by J. Jioni Palmer
Being the Black father of Black boys in America today means more than giving "the talk." The threat of gun violence from many sources brought this father to a heartbreaking decision.
Come as You Are
by Karen Guzman
Working with an injured horse feels to Karen Guzman like prayer. God receives us, with our traumas and weaknesses and wariness, and gently guides us to realize our full potential.
Ash Wednesday in Jail – Women’s Unit
by Sally Witt, CSJ
S. Sally Witt's poem explores the depth of the Ash Wednesday ritual as women in prison come forward reflecting God's love, the Good News that we are all Christ's disciples.
Articles & Essays
For the Love of God and Family
by J. Jioni Palmer
Being the Black father of Black boys in America today means more than giving "the talk." The threat of gun violence from many sources brought this father to a heartbreaking decision.
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Come as You Are
by Karen Guzman
Working with an injured horse feels to Karen Guzman like prayer. God receives us, with our traumas and weaknesses and wariness, and gently guides us to realize our full potential. -
On Time in the Pandemicby Renée Bondy
The pandemic has changed how we experience time-- it has both slowed and sped up. Living with restrictions and without our usual routines, we have an opportunity to reassess time itself. -
A Patron Saint for Our Pandemicby Timothy Jones
Our lockdowns and distancing and harrowing loss of life has made me all the more glad I went to Norwich.
Interviews
Digging Local Clay
by Richard Bresnahan
In the Rule of Saint Benedict, it says that you should treat your everyday tools as instruments of the altar. I translate that as saying every tool or material that you use, if it has been shaped by a human hand and cared for, is a sacred object.
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12 Tiny Thingsby Stina Kielsmeier-Cook
Ellie Roscher's book "12 Tiny Things" offers small spiritual micro practices that bring our attention to the work of justice and help prevent overwhelm. -
Hurting Yet Wholeby Catherine Hervey
"I think the ways we try to fit purpose into our ideas of what is beneficial can make it so we don’t fully experience our suffering for what it is." -
Blessed Are the Nonesby J. Dana Trent
The Visitation Sisters taught me that it’s only in our relationship with one another that we can live out the gospel and no one can be a Christian alone.
Books
Book Notes, January 2021
by Collegeville Institute
In this series, we highlight books we think our readers may enjoy, written by authors affiliated with the Collegeville Institute.
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12 Tiny Things
by Stina Kielsmeier-Cook
Ellie Roscher's book "12 Tiny Things" offers small spiritual micro practices that bring our attention to the work of justice and help prevent overwhelm. -
Hurting Yet Whole
by Catherine Hervey
"I think the ways we try to fit purpose into our ideas of what is beneficial can make it so we don’t fully experience our suffering for what it is." -
Morning Sickness and Adventby Heidi Neumark
Sanctuary is not without stresses, exactly because sanctuary is an embodied way for dreams to grow in a protected space so that a different future can be born.
Poetry
Ash Wednesday in Jail – Women’s Unit
by Sally Witt, CSJ
S. Sally Witt's poem explores the depth of the Ash Wednesday ritual as women in prison come forward reflecting God's love, the Good News that we are all Christ's disciples.
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Two Letters from Lukeby Zach Czaia
"He is stuck in a little room in Rome / and the Emperor isn’t listening, / and the leaders of the synagogue came, / heard his piece, and they aren’t listening." -
Safeby Andrew Taylor-Troutman
Andrew Taylor-Troutman's new sonnet explores grief and the comfort received from what remains. -
Prie Dieuby Gideon Okpeta
Suffer me to return to you, / your throne a place for leniency. / I look to the sacred book for a guide / against the troubles of heaven and earth, / for they beset me.
