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Silence and Discernment of the Deacon

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The other day I saw a young lady I know who had a sticker on her backpack that said, “Silence is death.” I know this teenager well enough that I could ask her about the sticker. She told me that the saying originated in the 1980s when the AIDS crisis was fully blown, and some Read More
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The Journey of Discernment

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It was early January 1994 when I made my canonical retreat prior to ordination to the diaconate in May of that year. Three of us went to the Trappist monastery of St. Joseph Abbey in Spencer, Massachusetts. My memories of that time away from “the world” are still quite vivid. It was an intense period Read More