A Brother Said, “Be Aware.”
Over the years, retreat masters, abbots, and those who I went to for spiritual-direction would...
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Author: Brother Mark Dohle
The Woman In a Wheelchair
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….
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The Hidden Drama Within Each of Us
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.
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Looking Leviathan In the Face
Yesterday, Leviathan came up suddenly, bit me, and dragged me deep into my own inner hell.
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No brake function on the highway of our lives (Jesus promised that those who seek shall find)
I don’t want to die suddenly. I believe that the ‘last mile’ is the most important time of life.
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A New Book For Children Explaining Sin Without Being Another “Sin Story”
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.
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Trying Another Kind of Love
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.
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Why Catholics Need to Take a Deep Breath Over Trump’s Migrant Ban
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.
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An Encounter with Jesus Christ at Waffle House
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.
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The So-Called 60s Revolution: A Trappist Looks Back
I 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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