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I have long benefitted from the writings of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks.  I just read an essay of his from this past week titled The Prophetic View of Sacrifice.  Sacrifice was “central to the religious life of biblical Israel,” yet one can find frequent critique of sacrifices in the Hebrew Scriptures (and he quotes a number […]

This morning I “attended” Mass at St. Ignatius of Loyola Church in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, presided over by my friend Joe Costantino.  Like many of you, I attended Mass from my home via internet.  It is not the same as being there, but it felt good to be at Mass together. I thought today’s readings […]

Tonight was the opening session of the Lenten Ignatian Retreat at St. Thomas More.  After this initial large group meeting, small retreat groups will meet weekly, and participants will pray each day with materials we provide to them that are based on Weeks 2 and 3 of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius. I gave […]

Today was the second session of the Fall Reflection Series that Jennifer Wright and I are offering at the University of St. Thomas (on the Minneapolis campus) this year.  The theme for this five week series is Women of the Bible. In last week’s opening session, Jennifer spoke about Sarah and Hagar.  (You can find her talk […]

Monday was the first session of the Fall Reflection Series that Jennifer Wright and I are offering at the University of St. Thomas (on the Minneapolis campus) this year.  Our theme for the five week series is Women of the Bible. Monday I briefly introduced the series and Jennifer spoke our our first subjects: Sarah […]