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Archives for 2015
Catholic Artists Conference
Catholic Artists Conference in Omaha
Here’s the abstract from the talk I was scheduled to give (sadly, the conference was cancelled). [Read more…]
Sins on Vatican Walls ?!?!
Here is my response to a friend who sent the article, “Making Dogma Out of Unsettled Science,” from Crisis Magazine. [Read more…]
Praising Mortality
Thanks to a friend who lets the Spirit move her, I now own a volume of Rainer Maria Rilke’s poetry. I’m enjoying lots of lovely morsels from In Praise of Mortality, translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy. Rilke wrote these Sonnets to Orpheus after the First World War left him bereft of words. He was paralyzed by the horror and destruction, but turned a corner in the effort to reconcile it with his vocation. As he saw it, a poet is called to praise, to “grasp and give shape to” his world, to name the world in gratitude for the goodness shining through it. [Read more…]
2 Thessalonians 3:16
Ephesians 5:14
Colossians 1:11
Poets are a Pain
Click here for the whole series I call the Bishop Q&A.
…it is difficult for poets to remain acceptable or contented party men; they ask too many questions.
Dorothy Sayers, in the Introduction to her translation of Dante’s Purgatorio
Free SAW Study Guide
For the millions of you who are reading Souls at Work, the FREE STUDY GUIDE is now ready to download. I don’t ask you to do anything I wouldn’t do, so before I made it available, I actually went through and answered every question myself! And that wasn’t an empty exercise. Even after writing the whole book, I got some new insights and perspectives from responding to those juicy questions myself. I would love to hear that you are working on this! Here are all my own responses, so you can know that through this book, you really are (or can be…have you read Chapter 24 – Books??) in conversation with me: Charlotte’s Responses to SAW Study Guide Questions
2 Thessalonians 3:5
Restart, Repeat
One thing I love about the shape of my days is that I get several new beginnings sandwiched in between dawn and dark. [Read more…]
My Secret Name
I think of God as having a name for me that takes hours to say.
Somehow, the ‘whole me’ will be included in that name, and it won’t be complete until my life is complete. My current name is like a symbol of this fully-known and fully-uttered ‘me,’ who has being within Him. At the moment during Mass when we pray, “only say the word, and my soul shall be healed,” I sense Him speaking this one word: my name. [Read more…]
Peeved and Blessed
Customer service people often let me down.
A pet peeve of mine is the one who, on being asked a question, simply says, “I don’t know,” instead of “I’ll go find out right now.” Another is [Read more…]
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