February 7, 2026
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February 7, 2026

Intimacy with God

By entering into the intimacy of our inner most self, Jesus offers us the opportunity to enter into his own intimacy with God.

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February 6, 2026
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February 6, 2026

Place of True Belonging

The perfect love about which St. John speaks, embraces and transcends all feelings, emotions, and passions. The perfect love that drives out all fear is the divine love in which we are invited to participate.

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February 5, 2026
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February 5, 2026

Make Your Home in Me

When Jesus says: “Make your home in me as I make mine in you,” he offers us an intimate place that we can truly call “home.” 

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February 4, 2026
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February 4, 2026

The House of Christ

Why is there no reason to fear any longer? Jesus himself answers this question succinctly when he approaches his frightened disciples walking on the lake: 

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February 3, 2026
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February 3, 2026

The Lord’s Reassuring Voice

Though we think of ourselves as followers of Jesus, we are often seduced by the fearful questions the world presents to us. 

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February 2, 2026
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February 2, 2026

Love Filled Answers

When we consider how much our educational, political, religious, and even social lives are geared to finding answers to questions born of fear…

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February 1, 2026
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February 1, 2026

Resisting Fearful Questions

The agenda of our world - the issues and items that fill newspapers and newscasts - is an agenda of fear and power. It is amazing, yes frightening, to see how easily that agenda becomes ours.

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January 31, 2026
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January 31, 2026

We Love Because He First Loved Us

The mystery of God‘s presence can be touched only by a deep awareness of his absence.

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January 30, 2026
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January 30, 2026

Prayer is Grace

We cannot force God into a relationship. God comes to us on his own initiative, and no discipline, effort, or aesthetic practice can make him come. 

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January 29, 2026
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January 29, 2026

Beyond Reaching Out

Reaching out to our innermost self was not just a reaching out to more of ourselves, to more detailed understanding of our inner complexities. 

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January 28, 2026
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January 28, 2026

Meeting the Uncreated God

We still have a long way to go before we are ready to meet our God, not the God created by our own hands or mind, but the uncreated God out of whose loving hands we are born.

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January 27, 2026
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January 27, 2026

Prayer: Most Human of all Human Acts

It is the most human of all human acts, it is also easily perceived as the most superfluous and superstitious activity. 

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January 26, 2026
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January 26, 2026

Eternally Real God

The movement from illusion to prayer undergirds and makes possible the movements from loneliness to solitude and from hostility to hospitality, and leads us to the core of the spiritual life.

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January 25, 2026
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January 25, 2026

Fulfillment in Powerlessness

Our fulfillment is in offering emptiness, our usefulness in becoming useless, our power in becoming powerless. 

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January 24, 2026
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January 24, 2026

God is Greater

Just as God cannot be “caught “or “comprehended” in any specific idea, concept, opinion, or conviction, he cannot be defined by any specific feeling or emotion either. 

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January 23, 2026
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January 23, 2026

Letting Life Enter Us

Poverty of mind as a spiritual attitude is a growing willingness to recognize the incomprehensibility of the mystery of life.

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January 22, 2026
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January 22, 2026

The Paradox of Hospitality

It is indeed the paradox of hospitality that poverty makes a good host. Poverty is the inner disposition that allows us to take away our defences and convert our enemies into friends. 

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January 21, 2026
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January 21, 2026

 Finding a Balance

Receptivity and confrontation are the two inseparable sides of Christian witness. They have to remain in careful balance.

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January 20, 2026
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January 20, 2026

Listen to the Voice of Love

As a reaction to a very aggressive, manipulative, and often degrading type of evangelization, we sometimes have become hesitant to make our own religious convictions known, thereby losing our sense of witness. 

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January 19, 2026
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January 19, 2026

No Hiding in Neutrality

When we want to be really hospitable, we not only have to receive strangers, but also to confront them by an unambiguous presence, not hiding ourselves behind neutrality, but showing our ideas, opinions, and lifestyle clearly and distinctly.

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