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On Earth as It Is in Heaven All things are sustained by divine life. When this divine life enters into the human world, it becomes a light in the mind. The light in the human mind allows people to see the life that is everywhere. When people wake up to the fact that they are […]

Mother Teresa told how one day in Calcutta she picked a man out of the gutter and brought him to the home for the dying. Before he died he said to her, ‘I have lived like an animal but I’m dying like an angel, loved and cared for.’ Mother Teresa remarked on the greatness of a man […]

Our passage from this world is preceded by many other smaller passages. When we were born, we made the passage from life in the womb to life outside the womb. When we went to school we made the passage from life in the family to life in the larger community. Those who have married have […]

Henry David Thoreau lived for two years in a shack in the woods in Maine. What did he do during those years? He planted a vegetable garden. Read books and observed nature. But sometimes he did nothing at all. He says, ‘Sometimes on a summer morning, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till […]

SCRIPTURE NOTE Today’s readings continue the theme of prayer. In a society where money and power are everything, the ‘little people’ don’t have a chance. The First Reading states that God treats all people fairly. He shows no partiality to the rich and powerful. He listens to the humble prayer of the just and the […]