Tag Archives: Vocation
Hope.
“You’ve heard she’s going to Boston College next year?” she said, gesturing toward me, as we stood around the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard this afternoon. She was referring to my decision to start a PhD … Continue reading
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Fire II
I walk out of the library and hear the faint, familiar whisper of a tree. It is that tall, brilliant orange one – there – calling out: Fire. It has been a year since the autumn reds and golds consumed … Continue reading
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Ecstasy (and in the meantime…)
You have not danced so badly, my dear, Trying to hold hands with the Beautiful One. You have waltzed with great style, My sweet, crushed angel, To have ever neared God’s Heart at all. Our Partner is notoriously difficult to … Continue reading
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Just Say the Word
When Jesus had entered Capernaum, a centurion came to him, asking for help. “Lord,” he said, “my servant lies at home paralyzed and in terrible suffering.” Jesus said to him, “I will go and heal him.” The centurion replied, “Lord, … Continue reading
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The Labyrinth
Amid these long days curled over my laptop and yellow-paged library books, I have been stepping out into the fresh air for a walk on the Labyrinth. The white-stoned, circular meditation walk rests on the edge of a grassy lawn … Continue reading
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The Springboard, Or A Prayer for Finals
The Springboard by Adrienne Rich Like divers, we ourselves must make the jump That sets the taut board bounding underfoot Clean as an axe blade driven in a stump; But afterward what makes the body shoot Into its pure and … Continue reading
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Scruples (Or, How The Protestant Reformers Might Just Save Me)
Scruples. It is a silly-sounding world, and it describes what is possibly one of the most influential forces in Christian history. Scruples literally means “an uneasy feeling arising from conscience or principle that tends to hinder action,” or “a doubt … Continue reading
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Fire.
Lately each time I enter the gates of Harvard Yard from the concrete and brick of the Square, I am greeted with the opening word from Pascal’s Mémorial. The demanding red foliage of this one large tree declares, “Fire.” Mémorial … Continue reading
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Our Humility and Our Giftedness
Oh, God help me, daughters, how many souls must have been made to suffer great loss in this way by the devil! These souls think that all such fears stem from humility…The fears come from ourselves, for this lack of … Continue reading
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I Couldn’t Stay
Check out my latest blog entry on CTA’s Young Adult Catholic Blog, entitled “I Couldn’t Stay.”
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