Category: Psychology
Mourning Missing Children on Mother’s Day
By Theresa Burke, Ph.D. and Kevin Burke, LSW “For many moms with an abortion in their past,...
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A Down-to-Earth Prosaic Place — That’s a Monastery
The monastery as St Benedict describes it is a workshop. It is not the paradise of the cloister.
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Armoring Your Children from the World: St. Theophan’s “A Path to Salvation”
Without armor, during their years in school, your children will be bullied into accepting views contrary to Christian belief.
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A Parable That Addressed My Sense of Failure
Then as I grew up, I met with failure after failure in every part of my life.
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Illness as Blessing and Opportunity: Jean-Claude Larchet’s “The Theology of Illness”
Health actually can be bad for us when we misuse our healthy bodies. While the Fathers teach that illness is not a source of evil, they point out that some vices are the source of our illnesses.
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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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Blocking Out the Dictatorship of Noise in Prayer
Wrapped in the monk’s prayer, I drive along at the speed limit, aware of but not distracted by the drivers speeding by and their occasional angry outbursts toward me.
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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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How To Help Others With Mental Illness
If you already know that you suffer from a mental illness, don’t be shy about sharing your story with people. That’s the best way to increase awareness and erase the stigma.
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Love and Lord
Yet surely, You are Love and Lord.
Your Light unseen has shone.
To gather us in one accord,
You make Your Presence known.
The Weathered Fence – A Poem
The limit of our liberty To shape ourselves the way we choose Is much like weather’s destiny, Imposed with scarce a thing to lose.
Though old and gray, I am embraced By nature, like a vibrant vine. That’s why my background may be faced, Fermented like an aged wine.
Crime and Punishment – Being Christ In the World
Raskolnikov’s heart is won by Sonya’s suffering in the name of Christ for others, her patient waiting, and her love, not the Bible she has given him in silence that he leaves under his pillow unread.
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