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Not Alone

Saint Joseph’s, the parish church where I worship, is one of the oldest in Minnesota. It has distinctive walls made of local rocks, quarried or found as fieldstone by the…

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Ascensiontide Hope

Processions! Pageants! Picnics! Roasted fowl! Bird-shaped pastries! Historically, European Christians celebrated Jesus’ ascension into heaven with symbols of flight and ascent. Ascensiontide, the ten-day season beginning today, leads to Pentecost.…

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Illustration by Br. Martin Erspamer, OSB, a monk of Saint Meinrad Archabbey, Indiana. Used with permission.

Remain in My Love

Consider, for a moment, the people in whose presence your heart stops racing, those beside whom you feel centered and serene; the ones in whose company the orbit of your…

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