February 13, 2026
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February 13, 2026

Called to be Fruitful

In our contemporary society, with its emphasis on accomplishment and success, we often live as if being productive is the same as being fruitful.

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February 12, 2026
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February 12, 2026

Holy Contagiousness

Countless people experience their existence as dull, boring, stagnant, and routine. They lack vitality, a deep desire to be alive.

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February 11, 2026
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February 11, 2026

The Intimacy of God’s House

Living in the intimacy of God‘s house, we gradually come to know the mysterious truth that the God who loves us with a perfect love, includes all people in that love without diminishing in any way the unique quality of God‘s love for each individual person.

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February 10, 2026
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February 10, 2026

Belonging to All Humanity

The mystery of the incarnation reveals to us the spiritual dimension of human solidarity.

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February 9, 2026
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February 9, 2026

 A Fearless Space

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

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February 8, 2026
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February 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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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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