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Fr. Emmerich Vogt’s 12 Step Spirituality;
Maine Calix Meeting, Sunday Evening
Fr. Emmerich Vogt is well known for his talks and publications on 12 Step Spirituality (see here). The Sunday evening Maine Calix meeting (7 pm EST) is using a series of 12 pamphlets authored by Fr. Vogt. The featured image...
Thursday Calix Meeting: Jesus the Bridegroom and Theology of the Body
As you may have heard, Calix Thursday night 8pm Zoom meetings for the last year or so have been dedicated to looking at our recovery through a Theology of the Body lens. What is Theology of the Body (TOB) and how is it related...
Embrace the Darkness;
A Holy Saturday Theology
"Now what I want to suggest is on this whole topic of the human addiction, the addiction to control and our addiction to want to play God, that when the darkness comes into our lives, when things are not going well, then in fact...
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Siri, Help Me Work Step 4!
INTRODUCTION During a week-long internet fast several years ago (recommended by my spiritual director) the full meal was watching talks from the 2021 Meeting of the Society of Catholic Scientists.¹ (Twenty-five years ago, as a...
The Big Book tells us to trust God
And a New Outlook on Confession
A thought for today from the Big Book (P, 68). "We never apologize to anyone for depending on our Creator. We can laugh at those who think spirituality the way of weakness. Paradoxically, it is the way of strength. The verdict...
Christ is with You on the Road to Emmaus*
*NOTE This article was not written by me (drbob), but by my spiritual director, Deacon Tom C. It is taken from the homily he gave for the Third Sunday of Easter, April 19th, for which the Gospel reading was about the two...
Hail Mary;
My Powerful Prayer
In morning prayers, I close my eyes and visualize my home as a small cottage on an Irish shore. Plume of home fire smoke floating from chimney. Stony path out my door leads down a gentle slope through wispy grass to the sand.
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