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Beyond Lives of Quiet Desperation: Moving from Surviving and Coping to Really Thriving
What is it to really thrive? Do you feel as though life has been passing you by? Are you waiting for your ship to come in? Do you find yourself asking if this is all there is to life? Not long ago … Continue reading
Posted in Counseling, Health, suffering, Uncategorized
Tagged coping skills, Fight or fligh response, overcoming addictions, thriving, what is happiness
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Kateri Tekakwitha to Become the First Native American Saint on October 21, 2012
Kateri Tekakwitha, known as the Lily of the Mohawks, will become the first Native American saint. She will be canonized along with six others at the Vatican this Sunday on October 21, 2012. Disfigured and blinded by smallpox Kateri Tekakwitha was a Native … Continue reading
For All Who Have Difficulty Praying
A saint who had a tough time in prayer Today’s saint sympathizes with all of those who have difficulty in prayer. Because like most of us, she experienced the distractions of everyday life, a wandering mind, hardships, boredom, challenges, and … Continue reading
Pray, Hope, and Don’t Worry: Advice on Coping from a Saint
Tractor trailers bear his image. In Italy, it is not uncommon to see semi-tractor trailers zipping down the highway boasting an image of an infamous Capuchin friar. On my own visits to Rome, I have seen this on more than one … Continue reading
Posted in Saints, suffering, Uncategorized
Tagged Bilocation, Padre Pio, San Giovanni Rotundo, St. John Cantius Church in Chicago, Stigmata
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On Going to the Moon: Not Just Another Raving “Lunatic”
A popular lunatic One of my favorite old-time TV programs is the Honeymooners. A line from that 1950s sitcom which always makes me laugh is when Ralph Kramden, played by Jackie Gleason, gets flustered at his wife and yells, “To … Continue reading
Lives That Speak Love for God and Others: Two Saints from Auschwitz
This week has two different feast days of saints who had died in the Nazi Concentration Camp at Auschwitz. One on August 9, is for St. Benedicta of the Cross, a Carmelite; and the other on August 14 is for St. … Continue reading
A Saint for Those Thought To Be Unable to Amount to Anything
St. John Vianney: Having difficulty learning and being labeled as slow There are saints for poor students, and especially for those who are perceived to be unable to ever amount to anything during their lifetime. St. John Vianney, or St. … Continue reading
When Others Appear to be Having all the Fun
The Big Lie. There are certain myths that a lot of people believe in this life. A big one is thinking that others in this life are having all the fun. It is the thought that perhaps all these others have … Continue reading
What are the Motives for These Mass Shootings?
A senseless tragedy The media has been dominated by the shocking news of a gunman in who presented himself before the theater of a midnight premier of the Batman movie, “Dark Knight Rises” and proceeded to throw canisters of gas … Continue reading
“If You’ve Been Successful, You Didn’t Get There on Your Own”
Obama’s campaign speech There has been a lot of controversy during the last few days over what Obama said to business owners in a campaign speech given in Roanoke, Virginia: …”look, if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on … Continue reading