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  1. Mark Dohle

    The Early Morning Hours and Silence

    The Early Morning Hours and Silence I remember from the years I lived in Panama, from 1958-1967, how much I loved to go to bed early, very early. If it was raining, even if it was only 8 PM I would go to my room and just lie there listening to the rain, the wind, and the swaying of the...
  2. Mark Dohle

    Faith and the Unconscious

    Faith and the Unconscious The truth is that our unconscious minds are active, purposeful, and independent. Hidden they may be, but their effects are anything but, for they play a critical role in shaping the way our conscious minds experience and respond to the world.---Leonard Mlodinow...
  3. Mark Dohle

    Razor's Edge

    Thank you metis, blessed day to you as well. peace Mark
  4. Mark Dohle

    Razor's Edge

    Razor's Edge Lord, we are always on the edge, we can hide from it, keeping busy, yet no one is so special that we are not vulnerable, what a boon this short life with its valleys and hills and occasional mountain view. What a gift, is a life, both in its fullness, as well as its brevity. --Br.MD
  5. Mark Dohle

    Thank you. We all need hope, everyday.

    Thank you. We all need hope, everyday.
  6. Mark Dohle

    Hope

    Hope To hope is to reach upward when all is dark, when one is alone, yet propelled to reach for grace, God's love is beyond our emotions, feelings, and even our deepest misunderstandings of Infinite Love Just reach.--Br.MD
  7. Mark Dohle

    Our Spiritual Path

    Our Spiritual Path I press on toward the goal to win the prize of God's heavenly calling in Christ Jesus. --Philippians 3:14 When people speak to me, more than a few when sharing their spiritual path, and frustrations can overlook what is the most obvious. For they will often complain that...
  8. Mark Dohle

    The Monastic Journey (Chapter talk 11/14/2020)

    The Monastic Journey (Chapter talk 11/14/2020) The world tells us to seek success, power, and money; God tells us to seek humility, service, and love.--Pope Francis ++++++++++ The human journey from my experience is not a simple affair. There is an old saying “What you see is what you get”...
  9. Mark Dohle

    When Catholic Bias becomes toxic

    Well said. The death to self that Jesus calls us to is to expand our often fearful, tribal hearts to one of Universal love, and to be loving and gentle when we speak what we believe is true. peace mark
  10. Mark Dohle

    How else can we love ourselves?

    Wow, powerfully put, thank you!!!
  11. Mark Dohle

    How else can we love ourselves?

    How else can we love ourselves? God is always at work, in ways that can't be comprehended, or even seen. When Jesus was in the tomb, for a time, it seemed that evil had won, yet that was not the case, nor is it now. As Christians, when we gain understanding more deeply what it means to be in...
  12. Mark Dohle

    All Souls Day 2020

    All Souls Day 2020 "The more one longs for a thing, the more painful does deprivation of it become. And because after this life, the desire for God, the Supreme Good, is intense in the souls of the just (because this impetus toward him is not hampered by the weight of the body, and that time...
  13. Mark Dohle

    All Saints Day 2020

    Yes, to love as God loves.
  14. Mark Dohle

    All Saints Day 2020

    All Saints Day 2020 “If God is for us, who is against us?” (Rom 8:31): this is the source of the peace found in the saints. Such inner strength makes it possible for us, in our fast-paced, noisy and aggressive world, to give a witness of holiness through patience and constancy in doing good. It...
  15. Mark Dohle

    It is in giving that we receive

    It is in giving that we receive O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, and it is in dying that we are born to...
  16. Mark Dohle

    Show respect for all people: 1 Peter 17

    Yes, I agree. peace Mark
  17. Mark Dohle

    Show respect for all people: 1 Peter 17

    Show respect for all people The climate in the United States is pretty ugly at this time. It would seem that Christians could be the worst offenders in how they attack one another and even condemn them to hell. I recently wrote a piece on 'Silence' and posted it on a Catholic site. The response...
  18. Mark Dohle

    "We become what we hate".

    "We become what we hate". There is an old saying "We become what we hate". It is a paradox, absurd, yet when I attack someone on whatever grounds, I tend to become the very thing I am fighting. It is as if we have seeds laying within, more or less dormant, and they only take root when watered...
  19. Mark Dohle

    I got my ballot

    What a powerful comment, as well as a testimony, thank you. Peace Mark
  20. Mark Dohle

    I got my ballot

    I got my ballot I got my ballot in the mail today. There have already been 21 million votes, I guess that is a record. I am weary of it all but hopeful. I hope that when this over, whoever wins, perhaps the next four years can be used to actually doing their jobs instead of all this partisan...
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