our every encounter leads someone toward beatitude or away from it

November 1, 2024
November

A branch wields its way toward the grey haze of an icy sky, stripped of its leaves, with a golden pile of garments at its base, shriveling dry.

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October 6, 2024
the harvest

Pumpkins fascinated Kevin. Every October, his father would drive him and his sisters to a roadside stand outside of town to find pumpkins for Halloween.

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September 23, 2024
twenty years

9/23/04 – 3:40 am
Hope, Idaho
Dad made his passage to the next life at 1:18 am this morning…

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September 11, 2024
no peace without justice, no justice without forgiveness

As we commemorate the 23rd anniversary of the September 11 attacks, I think again of the reflection Pope Saint John Paul II wrote shortly afterward on the occasion of the World Day of Peace. It was one of the very first things I posted after launching my website, doxaweb.com, in 2001. It seems apropos today, […]

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