A Brother Said, “Be Aware.”
Over the years, retreat masters, abbots, and those who I went to for spiritual-direction would...
Read MorePosted by Brother Mark Dohle | Mar 11, 2019 | Featured, Saints |
Over the years, retreat masters, abbots, and those who I went to for spiritual-direction would...
Read MorePosted by Brother Mark Dohle | Nov 4, 2017 | Faith, Featured, Manners, Spirituality |
It was a Saturday afternoon, around 2 pm when Roseanne notified me that she received a phone call from a woman in distress. My first reaction was not to respond to the call….
Read MorePosted by Brother Mark Dohle | Oct 18, 2017 | Featured, Psychology, Spirituality |
Until one day, it has not happened yet, my heart will finally break open and I will experience what has always been there, a love beyond telling.
Read MorePosted by Brother Mark Dohle | Aug 20, 2017 | Featured, Scripture, Spirituality |
Yesterday, Leviathan came up suddenly, bit me, and dragged me deep into my own inner hell.
Read MorePosted by Brother Mark Dohle | Aug 4, 2017 | Featured, Psychology, Spirituality |
I don’t want to die suddenly. I believe that the ‘last mile’ is the most important time of life.
Read MorePosted by Brother Mark Dohle | Jun 17, 2017 | Books, Family, Featured, Theology |
I wanted to explain why God allows us to sin. So I wrote a story— a story about Adam and Eve— a story about Cain and Abel— a story about Lucifer.
Read MorePosted by Brother Mark Dohle | Apr 12, 2017 | Faith, Featured, Spirituality, Theology |
Our lives if spent failing to love others the way God wants us to only leads to more pain, death and destruction. He wants us to try another way.
Read MorePosted by Brother Mark Dohle | Feb 3, 2017 | Bishops, Featured, Politics |
Unfortunately, members of the U.S. Catholic hierarchy have played into the resulting hysteria, issuing foreboding declarations as if the President were setting up gulags or hustling Muslims into gas chambers rather than temporarily halting immigration from a few key countries that are hotbeds of Islamic terrorism.
Read MorePosted by Brother Mark Dohle | Jan 28, 2017 | Faith, Featured, Spirituality |
When I first saw him, my impulse was to label him: ‘Drunk’ and ‘drug addict’ came to mind. But I caught myself and tried to encounter him as a simple human being, the same as me. Labels protect us from the messy humanity of others.
Read MoreI remember when Jimmy Hendrix and Janis the King and Queen of Rock, who both died from the lifestyles that they embraced and in pretty much the same manner, just weeks apart. Two great talents dead at an early age because they bought into a world view that was in the end destructive, not only to themselves but to others.
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