Searching for God

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Where did God go? It’s a question many of us have asked in serious trials, in spiritual dryness, and in the most difficult temptations. Of course, we know in our intellect that God, who is omnipresent, hasn’t gone anywhere; that He tells us in the Scriptures that He will be with us “until the close of the age.”[1]Matt 28:20 All of this registers in the head… but it’s often in the heart that we are groping in darkness, searching for Him whom we love.Continue reading →

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↑1 Matt 28:20

Where Did God Go?

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I will lead you into the desert…
I will strip you of everything
that you are depending on now,
so you depend just on Me.
A time of darkness is coming on the world,
but a time of glory is coming for My Church,
a time of glory is coming for My people. 

—The “Prophecy at Rome“,
St. Peter’s Square, Pentecost Monday, 1975
in the presence of Pope Paul VI

 

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There is coming a time, if we have not already entered it, when our religious clichés will collapse, when our formulas will fail, when all the supports upon which we have relied in the past will be pulled from beneath us.Continue reading →

The Slow Burn

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As of today, all the visitors over these Feast days have left, the house has fallen silent, and my energies return to this mysterious apostolate. It is entering its twenty-first year with nearly 1900 writings that span four pontificates. My hair is a little more gray, all but one of eight children that was at the beginning has now left home, and my eyeglasses have taken a near-permanent place on my nose.Continue reading →