March 11, 2026
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March 11, 2026

Entering Your Silence

Lord Jesus, Help me in this moment to set aside all that has preoccupied me today.

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March 10, 2026
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March 10, 2026

Belonging to All Humanity

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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March 9, 2026
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March 9, 2026

A Fearless Space

God alone is free enough from wounds to offer us a fearless space. 

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March 8, 2026
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March 8, 2026

The First Love

The first love says: “You are loved long before other people can love you or you can love others.

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March 7, 2026
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March 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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March 6, 2026
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March 6, 2026

Place of True Belonging

The perfect love about which St. John speaks, embraces and transcends all feelings, emotions, and passions.

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March 5, 2026
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March 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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March 4, 2026
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March 4, 2026

Hidden in God

I know that every time I choose for my innocence, I don’t have to worry about the next ten years.

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March 3, 2026
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March 3, 2026

Just Dwell

Be with him and listen. Listen to the One who invites you. Be quiet. 

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March 2, 2026
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March 2, 2026

Divesting Power

The radical, divine choice is the choice to reveal glory, beauty, truth, peace, joy, and, most of all, love in and through the complete divestment of power.

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March 1, 2026
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March 1, 2026

A Heart of Flesh

God sent us you, Jesus, with a human heart big enough to hold all human loneliness and all human anguish.

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February 28, 2026
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February 28, 2026

Making Our True Home

Jesus travels with us and continues to reassure us every time we are driven to panic or tempted to destroy others or ourselves.

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February 27, 2026
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February 27, 2026

Global Spirituality

We must develop a global spirituality in which the demands of the gospel guide, not only the behaviour of individuals but of nations as well. 

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February 26, 2026
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February 26, 2026

Our Common Humanity

Ecstatic living entails a constant willingness to leave the safe, secure, familiar place, and to reach out to others, even when that involves risking one’s own security.

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February 25, 2026
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February 25, 2026

Celebrating Life

Celebration is not a party on special occasions, but an ongoing awareness that every moment is special and asks to be lifted up and recognized as a blessing from on high. There is Christmas, Easter, Pentecost, and the many feast days of the Saints.

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February 24, 2026
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February 24, 2026

Celebration Makes Joy Visible

The divine, ecstatic joy of the house of love becomes manifest in celebration.

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February 23, 2026
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February 23, 2026

Joy is a Divine Gift

The joy that Jesus offers his disciples is his own joy, which flows from his intimate communion with the One who sent him. 

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February 22, 2026
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February 22, 2026

How Fear Destroys

Fear can make us into wanderers who go from one place to another without direction or goal.

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February 21, 2026
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February 21, 2026

God is Pure Life

Joy is essentially ecstatic since it moves out of the place of death, which is rigid and fixed, and into the place of life, which is new and surprising…. 

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February 20, 2026
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February 20, 2026

Joy is Always New

The word “ecstasy “helps us to understand more fully, the joy that Jesus offers. 

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