by Bob K | Aug 21, 2023 | 12 Steps, a Catholic Perspective, Blog, Meetings, Reports from the Meetings
“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 we want to flee. Instead of...
by Bob K | Jul 6, 2023 | 12 Steps, a Catholic Perspective, Blog, Meetings, Reports from the Meetings
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 shows the cover for the pamphlet on...
by Bob K | Jun 19, 2023 | 12 Steps, a Catholic Perspective, Blog, Uncategorized
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 convert, the Catholic format for a...
by Bob K | Nov 30, 2020 | 12 Steps, a Catholic Perspective, Blog
STEP 12 “Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.” Today I write this, I recall my last drink, just 18 month ago, and the deep low I was in. I...
by Bob K | Nov 7, 2020 | 12 Steps, a Catholic Perspective, Prayer
“Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for a knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.” Step 11, “12 Steps and 12 Traditions,” p 96 INTRODUCTION...
by Bob K | Oct 6, 2020 | 12 Steps, a Catholic Perspective, Uncategorized
(The featured image is “The Conversion of St. Ignatius of Loyola” by Miguel Cabrera, from Wikimedia Commons) STEP 10: Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.” INTRODUCTION What does the term “personal...
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