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	<description>Oblates of St. Mary Monastery, Rock Island, Ill., blog about Benedictine values, prayer and life.</description>
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		<title>Chardin&#8217;s Desert Eucharist</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 22:54:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reading an essay this morning by J. G. Janzen, I learned that Pierre Teilhard de Chardin once wrote the following Eucharistic blessing for a time &#8220;when he found himself in an Asian desert without bread and wine and had simply invoked all the parts and all the happenings of creation as that day&#8217;s Eucharistic elements&#8221;: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Watches of the Night</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 20:22:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watches of the night&#8211;that&#8217;s the old-fashioned name for middle-of-the-night insomnia. The psalmists speak of them as times to commune with God in their hearts, opening their souls to divine judgment, longing for integrity. Do you think good soul work often goes on in your watches of the night? Or do you think they are times [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The River of Prayer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:31:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;There&#8217;s a river whose streams gladden the city of God, the holy dwelling of the Most High&#8221; (Ps. 46:4). I&#8217;ve sensed two rivers of late, though they tend to dissolve into one. The first is a river of suffering creatures &#8230; the second is a river of prayer. In this season of accompanying a family [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Times of Everyday Mortal Afflictions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 03:57:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve not written for a time because of a series of events that derailed my summer intentions. In early June my companion Daniel&#8217;s father (age 91) could not get back to bed from the bathroom, and since then he&#8217;s been back &#38; forth between the hospital and nursing home rehab, unable to care for his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My sister, My friend</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:48:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone with whom I am very close, my sister, 7 years my senior, has been homeless since early March. The roots of her homelessness go back decades: She married in 1970 just out of high school.  She and her husband never quite got the knack of home finances, declaring bankruptcy multiple times.  When they split-up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sr. Marilyn Hettinger, 1931-2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 21:26:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With deep grief we announce the sudden death of our dear Sr. Marilyn Hettinger. What a beautiful spirit &#8230; now a beautiful saint. Read the obituary.]]></description>
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		<title>The Nature of Praise</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:46:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We often think of &#8220;praying constantly,&#8221; but what about praising God constantly? Prayer can be petitionary, a way of dredging up what&#8217;s stirring inside our soul and giving voice of it to God. But prayer of praise, which Psalm 95 invites us into all this week, is something we may often see as a subset [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Spiritual Pilgrimage</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 17:51:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Join Sisters Ruth and Bobbi on their trip to Rome! Sr. Bobbi is sending dispatches and photos home as often as possible. Today they are attending the Pentecost Mass at St. Peter&#8217;s!]]></description>
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		<title>Sick Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 00:28:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sick today. Nothing serious, just a cold, but enough to stay home for. I ache, but not severely, and my voice is two octaves lower than usual. Sleep overtakes me every two hours or so, for two hours or so. In the waking intervals I read and consume hot tea and chicken soup by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Sacramental of the Flower</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 20:38:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve noticed that often the Sisters&#8217; daily Facebook updates feature flowers, and reference praise of God by way of the beauty of the natural world.  I think for many people the flower is a kind of sacramental, a visible reminder of the grace of God mediated to us in this fleshy wondrous world. The poppies [...]]]></description>
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