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The Ground of Our Being: God’s Indwelling Presence and the Grace That Draws Us Home (Lectio Divina)
Drawing on Fr. Harvey D. Egan’s reading of Karl Rahner, this Lectio Divina explores the mystery of God’s indwelling presence — not at the margins of our lives, but at the very ground of our being. A meditation on prevenient grace, the depths of human consciousness, and the paradox that the God we seek…
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What Seemed a Fragile Thread: On Grace, Awakening, and the Love That Will Not Let Us Go (Lectio Divina)
Drawing on Ruth Burrows’s vision of God as the consuming desire of the heart, this Lectio Divina reflects on the invisible thread of grace that connects us to God — a connection we cannot break, though we may forget, deny, betray, doubt, or flee from it. From Adam and Eve to the disciples in…
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A Life Dedicated to the Lord: Sabbath, Surrender, and the Little Way (Lectio Divina)
Drawing on Thérèse of Lisieux’s insight that God asks only for surrender and gratitude, this Lectio Divina explores what it means to practice Sabbath not as a single day but as a disposition of the whole life — a perpetual yes to God’s love, learned slowly, in faith and through grace.
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Where Does A Tree Start And End: God’s Eternal Love As The Ground Of Existence (Lectio Divina)
Drawing on Heidi Russell’s Rahnerian Christology, this Lectio Divina traces the cosmic arc of God’s self-communication — from the eternal intention to take on flesh, through the incarnation of Jesus of Nazareth, to the crucifixion we repeat whenever we fail to see the sacred ground of our shared existence. Beginning with a meditation on…
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No Secular Moment: Karl Rahner and the Sacredness of Ordinary Experience (Lectio Divina)
Drawing on Karen Kilby’s introduction to Karl Rahner, this Lectio Divina explores why there is no such thing as a secular or ordinary experience — why every moment, every relationship, and even our brokenness has its origin in God’s loving self-communication, poured out as the very life we so often take for granted.
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The Ledges We Cling To And The Holy Longing That Will Not Let Us Go (Lectio Divina)
What do a drug addict’s first high, an alcoholic’s first drunk, and the soul’s restless searching have in common? They are all, in their own way, an answer to the call of holy longing — a longing that God placed in us before we knew we had it. Drawing on Karl Rahner’s theology of…
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What the Flesh Cannot Hold: On Felt Absence and the Love That Remains (Lectio Divina)
When God feels absent, it is not because God has withdrawn — it is because the finite flesh cannot always bear the weight of infinite love. Drawing on the cry of dereliction, the agony in Gethsemane, and the Pauline vision of a life hidden in God, this Lectio Divina explores why felt separation is…
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It’s Not Fair: On Grievance, the Cross, and the Debt We Could Not Pay (Lectio Divina)
Drawing on Thérèse of Lisieux, the parable of the unforgiving servant, and the theology of kenosis, this Holy Week Lectio Divina reflects on the spiritual danger of nursing grievances — and on the cross as the horizon that recontextualizes everything we think we are owed.
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Opening the Heart: Love, Grace, and the Practice of Saying Yes (Lectio Divina)
Every moment is an invitation to open our hearts or harden them. Drawing on Karl Rahner’s theology of grace and Elizabeth Johnson’s vision of love’s ever-widening circle, this Lectio Divina reflects on why love takes practice, why the neighbor is our primary teacher, and how Christ’s self-emptying becomes the ground of our own yes.
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Waiting for You Who Never Left: On Longing, Absence, and God’s Unceasing Love (Lectio Divina)
Drawing on Karl Rahner’s image of the Silent Infinite, this Lectio Divina explores the ache of divine absence — the longing we feel when God seems far away, and the faith that sustains us through it. A meditation on the paradox at the heart of the contemplative life: that the love we feel is…