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Lent: Day NineA Story by Bishop R. Joseph OwlesIt feels like a month ago, but it’s only been a little over a week, when I thought about what humility is, and defined it in part as “an h.. |
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Lent: Day TenA Story by Bishop R. Joseph OwlesI don’t believe that everything that happens is God’s will"I never have. I guess I understand in theory how people assume that. If God is .. |
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Lent: Day ElevenA Story by Bishop R. Joseph OwlesIf I have been following through with all that I said I could do to enact humility, then I have spent the last week-and-a-half saying and doing things.. |
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Lent: Day TwelveA Story by Bishop R. Joseph OwlesSt. Benedict’s eighth step to humility is:The eighth degree of humility is, when a monk does nothing but what is sanctioned by the common rule o.. |
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Lent: Day ThirteenA Story by Bishop R. Joseph OwlesThe ninth step of humility, according to St. Benedict, is:when a monk refrains from speaking, and does not speak until he is asked; for the Scripture .. |
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Lent: Day FourteenA Story by Bishop R. Joseph OwlesI’m going to interpret St. Benedict’s next step to humility as:NEVER LAUGH AT, DERIDE, OR MOCK ANYONE OR ANYTHING.If you read the rule, ho.. |
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Lent: Day FifteenA Story by Bishop R. Joseph OwlesThe eleventh rung of humility is:SPEAK GENTLY, CALMLY, AND BRIEFLYThis makes me think of when Kevin Smith used to make films. His two returning charac.. |
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Offending GodA Story by Bishop R. Joseph OwlesI DARE YOU TO READ THIS! |
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Lent Day SixteenA Story by Bishop R. Joseph OwlesThe last step to humility, according to St. Benedict is to be humble in everything action.The twelfth degree of humility is, when a monk is not only h.. |
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Lent: Day Seventeen--Even if God Doesn't Exist, Go..A Story by Bishop R. Joseph OwlesEvery once in a while I run across an atheist who decides he is going to show my the error of my ways and the level of my delusion. A rational, educat.. |
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Lent: Day Eighteen–I’m No Judas! I’m So Much..A Story by Bishop R. Joseph OwlesWhen I was still in college, I had a dream that I was sent back into time to the time of Jesus. In the dream, my job was to make sure that Jesus was c.. |
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Lent: Day NineteenA Story by Bishop R. Joseph OwlesJesus said to his disciples:“Don’t assume that I have come to sabotage Moses’ set of rules or the prophets’ teachings. I haven.. |
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Lent: Day Twenty-OneA Story by Bishop R. Joseph OwlesA biblical scholar heard them debating and approached them. When he saw how well Jesus responded to the clergy, he asked Jesus, “Which commandme.. |
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Lent: Day Twenty-TwoA Story by Bishop R. Joseph OwlesThen Jesus told this story to those who look down on everybody else, while being convinced that they themselves are hot stuff. “Once upon a time.. |
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Lent: Day Twenty-ThreeA Story by Bishop R. Joseph OwlesTax-collectors and people with notoriously bad reputations flocked around Jesus so that they could hear him speak. But the lay-ministers and bibli.. |
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Lent: Day Twenty-FourA Story by Bishop R. Joseph OwlesCain sacrificed his brother to his jealousy and sin, and that blood never stopped accusing him, declaring his guilt; God sacrificed His Son for us.. |
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Jesuit 101--Jesuit SpiritualityA Story by Bishop R. Joseph OwlesWe have a Jesuit pope now, so a lot of people are probably trying to learn what that means. |
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Palm SundayA Story by Bishop R. Joseph OwlesThe reign of King David was coming to an end. To put it plainly he was old. He was definitely tired. The first half of his life was spent building a k.. |
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God is LoveA Poem by Bishop R. Joseph Owlescould be a poem; could be a sermon; could be a passing thought... |
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