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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>Feline Lectio</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 03:20:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It happened again the other day, this time when I was reading Psalm 24 in morning lectio. At the words, &#8220;Fling wide the gates, open the ancient doors, and the Glorious Liberator will come in!&#8221; The image that flashed into my mind: a large cat, strolling tail up in through the flung open doors of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resurrection, Physics and Me</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 19:21:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ric</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Diarmuid O'Murchu]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m tired.  I&#8217;m usually tired after Easter, but it seems like I&#8217;m more tired than normal this year.  There are plenty of reasons, even more than the regular demands and activities of a church musician during the Easter season. This winter brought a full load of family crises as well. Still doesn&#8217;t the reality of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More than Charity</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2012 21:06:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Along our Christian journeys there are times when we are drawn into a conversion of perspective about what faith asks of us. One such time for me happened in 1990 while I was sitting in the office of Medardo Gomez, the Lutheran Bishop of El Salvador. I had already met Bishop Gomez earlier in November [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rights vs. Grace</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 01:33:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ric</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rights. This week, the right to &#8220;free&#8221;contraception has been the big news. That discussion assumes the right to have sex any time we want to and with whomever we want. Of course, men have exercised these rights since the beginning of time, and women, till the 20th century, were left to worry about (or not) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unexpected Layers in Psalm 24</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:48:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Because Psalm 24 is one of the psalms we read every day for a whole week at a stretch, this past week I decided not to follow my usual temptation to skip it after one day, but to keep reading it first each morning and see what I saw differently by doing this. The first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Radical Benedictine Voice</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 00:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ric</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dorothy Day]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The letters O.S.B. after a name don&#8217;t usually suggest radical thinking to me.  My mistake. While this article might frustrate the superficial glance,  it rewards a careful reading. Like it or not, the Rule of St. Benedict is a radical document, and Fr. Virgil Michel, the early 20th Century monk and thinker (St. John&#8217;s, Minnesota) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Epiphany:  A Light over our Post-Holiday Lives</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:21:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unlike Advent and Lent, the season of Epiphany doesn&#8217;t invite introspection or conscious spiritual development for many of us. And western Christians have ironically let this day of starlight be eclipsed by New Year&#8217;s and by a return to our post-holiday routines. Post-expectations, the light shines on us as we somewhat wearily resume our ordinary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The New Happy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:32:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ric</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year. Welcome to Presidential Campaign 2012. Angry is the new happy. The Occupy Wall Street folks are angry at corporations. The Tea Party is angry at the government. The American public is angry at the Muslim world. The Muslim world is angry at the United States. Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck are angry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Advent as a Special Sabbath</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 02:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While light emerging in darkness is perhaps the most familiar Advent motif, Mary&#8217;s pregnancy in preparation for giving birth is a part of Advent I ponder often, too &#8212; even as a woman who has never given birth. At this moment draws near, Mary must drop everything to give her attention to act of giving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time &amp; the Ancestors</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 15:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday on my birthday I attended a physics lecture with a friend who&#8217;s a creative writer (poetry, a novel in the works). The lecture was about this year&#8217;s Nobel Prize winners&#8217; discovery that the expansion of the universe is accelerating, not decreasing. It was satisfying to think for a &#8216;time&#8217; of the immensity of the [...]]]></description>
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