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September 21, 2022

Please join me for a short course on Augustine’s Confessions.

Augustine believed that God speaks to us through certain key moments in our lives–reading him can be a way for us to reflect on those moments in our own lives.

Five Wednesdays, beginning October 12th at 11 am
The Upper Social Hall, St. Mary’s Parish Corvallis
The course is free, just come
recommended translation: Rex Warner (Signet Classics), easily available on Amazon

was last modified: September 21st, 2022 by deaconcanderson

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Dear Imperfections

Why “The Imperfect Catholic”? Because that’s who I am, and because I think we’re all imperfect, whatever our faith. “Dear imperfections,” St. Francis de Sales says, “they give us practice in humility.” And that’s a good thing. It’s when we accept who we are that the freedom comes, and the grace, and the joy.

The Birds of the Air

"Observe the birds of the air.
Learn from the way the wildflowers grow."

Matthew 6:25-34

"My dear souls, you are seeking for secret ways of belonging to God, but there is only one: making use of whatever he offers you. Everything leads you to this union with him. The blood flowing through your veins moves only by his will. Every feeling and every thought you have, no matter how they arise, all come from God’s invisible hand. You have nothing to do but love and cherish what each moment brings."

Jean-Pierre de Caussade, S.J.

"So this is how you swim inward,
so this is how you flow outward,
so this is how you pray."

Mary Oliver, “Five AM in the Pinewoods”

No Hell, No Dignity

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