My Spiritual Wanderings and Wonderings

Personal

  • Purgatory? We’re in It!

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    Some councils have been trying for maybe 1,000 years to get the belief in Purgatory, which is not named in the…

  • Vanity and Guilt

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    Here’s a bit of spiritual direction that helped me fifty years ago. Once, in a saintly passion, I cried with desperate…

  • Waiting like Jesus

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    Waiting is one of the most difficult thing for us to do.  Even putting it that way draws an underline under…

  • It’s Not So Hard

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    Sometimes we have to ask: If I am living in Christ and the person I now am will go through the…

  • A Story to Keep in Mind

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    My mother taught kindergarten at Holy Name in New Orleans. She taught for more than twenty years. One of her more…

  • An Act of Faith

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    One of the surprises of my later life was being moved by the Holy Spirit to pray prayers that enact faith,…