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| Catherine of Siena |
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 Mystic,
Activist, Healer
Catherine lived out the questions of
the Book of Common Prayerís baptismal covenant:
ìWill you
seek and serve Christ in all persons, loving your
neighbor as
yourself? Will you strive for justice and peace
among all
people, and respect the dignity of every human
being?î...Catherine offers contemporary seekers a
powerful
example of blending contemplation with action.
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about St. Catherine
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| What Are You Asking? |
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How can I live the
life of faith?
By offering yourself to God. Ideally we do this day
by day. But sometimes we can't. Sometimes it is just
too difficult or we are too distracted by all that
is going on around us. At those times, we ask God to
be patient with us until we can get back to offering
ourselves to God.
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What Saints Can Teach Us |
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People misunderstand saints; they think of them as
being
nice people, good people, people who behave well and
don't
make mistakes. But saints aren't like that.
Saints are extremely human, and
they are products of their cultures and
times.
Not one of us fails to charge off the path and into the
bramble bushes, sometimes quite frequently. Not one
of us
fails to get it wrong at least once a week and
probably much
more often than that.
But saints have shown us that there is the
possibility of living
Godwardly in this life, however imperfectly we do
it. Saints
are simply people who have chosen to point their
lives in
what they believe is God's direction, and there are
enough
lives pointed in the same direction that it begins
to look like
a long procession of people, all walking the same path,
keeping each other company.
That's what we celebrate on All Saints' Day.
from What
We Can Learn from the Saints
Commend Yourself to God
Integrity is not about fairness. It is about living
in the hands
of God. What does that mean?
If all you are called to do is to pick up a child
who is hurt,
then if you can join Jesus in commending yourself to
God,
you can also join Jesus in his vision of the
completeness of
his work. Our purpose on earth is not grand--not
even if we
become President. Our purpose is to commend ourselves
humbly to God.
from Midlife
Questions
by Ron McDonald
 An Unlikely Prophet
Recently named one of the top 100 living songwriters by
Paste magazine, David Bazan (formerly Pedro The
Lion) has produced some of the most compelling musical
narratives of hypocrisy, despair, and grace over the
last
decade.
He reminds us that art exists not only to tell us
who we
should be, but also to show us who we are.
from David
Bazan: Artist, Sinner, Christian
by Christopher Stratton
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