Province of St. Albert the Great, USA

Around the Web

We preach through many mediums: in person, in publications, through prophetic actions, and online. Here are some of the latest postings of our friars from around the internet.

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"Hope: Discovering Light in Darkness."

Mar 12, 2015 by
Fr. Joe Gillespie, OP

The first rays of sun reflected off my rearview mirror as I drove west on…
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"Faith is the absence of proof."

Mar 5, 2015 by
Fr. Joe Gillespie, OP

When the hospital elevator’s door reopened, all of us were surprised at…
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"Pay attention to the voice behind the curtain."

Feb 26, 2015 by
Fr. Joe Gillespie, OP

There is a wonderful scene in the film, The Wizard of Oz, where Toto pulls…
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"The most effective way to do it is to do it."

Feb 18, 2015 by
Fr. Joe Gillespie, OP

In a recent article entitled “The Lady Vanishes Again”, found in…
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"If you choose, you can make me clean."

Feb 11, 2015 by
Fr. Joe Gillespie, OP

“Moved with pity, Jesus stretched out his hand
and touched the leper and…
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"It's been a hard day's night, and I've been working like a dog."

Feb 4, 2015 by
Fr. Joe Gillespie, OP

Coming home very late from a hospital call, I was listening to a Beatle&rsquo…
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"What is this?"

Jan 29, 2015 by
Fr. Joe Gillespie, OP

A late lunch at Mickey’s Diner, way over in St. Paul, offered me an…
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"I hear you knocking, but you can't come in."

Jan 21, 2015 by
Fr. Joe Gillespie, OP

Once the rhythm and blues song “I Hear You Knocking, But You Can’t…
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"What a friend we have in Jesus." "What a friend we have in Jesus."

Jan 14, 2015 by
Fr. Joe Gillespie, OP

Some years ago I was invited to a Hymn Sing at a Lutheran Church. I must…
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Baptism: A Journey of Hope

Jan 7, 2015 by
Fr. Joe Gillespie, OP

The tiny hands of the two-day-old baby open and closed with each drop of water…
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"As we look back at those who have gone before us, what do we find?"

Jan 1, 2015 by
Fr. Joe Gillespie, OP

 
It was Monday afternoon, two days before Christmas eve that I reached…
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"Always give more than you take."

Dec 23, 2014 by
Fr. Joe Gillespie, OP

Reading the daily obituaries always gives me a new lease on life. A firm…
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If you want the most unlikely answers, then listen to the unexpected questions.

Dec 18, 2014 by
Fr. Joe Gillespie, OP

In the words of the poet Mary Oliver, “Poetry is a life giving force…
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"Lift up your eyes upon this day breaking for you. Give birth again to the dream."

Dec 10, 2014 by
Fr. Joe Gillespie, OP

The inevitable synchronicity of all four gospel accounts of the advent of God…
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"I wait with quickened hope for crooked paths to straighten."

Nov 24, 2014 by
Fr. Joe Gillespie, OP

Generations of the family gathered around the bed as I prepared to administer…
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"Who lives on the outskirts of the kingdom?"

Nov 20, 2014 by
Fr. Joe Gillespie, OP

The feast of Christ the King signals the end of Ordinary Time and the…
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"Still, I put up with this Church until I see a better one...

Nov 12, 2014 by
Fr. Joe Gillespie, OP

The seventeenth century Christian humanist and scholar, Erasmus, had, like…
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"Here's the church, here's the steeple, open the door and see all the people."

Nov 4, 2014 by
Fr. Joe Gillespie, OP

Combining words with action, a favorite childhood nursery rhyme often ended…
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"Come to me, all you that are weary, and I will give you rest."

Oct 29, 2014 by
Fr. Joe Gillespie, OP

Soul searching moments can take us by surprise and, with the grace of God,…
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"Do you love me?" "I suppose I do"

Oct 23, 2014 by
Fr. Joe Gillespie, OP

Often, when I hear the question, “Do you love me?” I think of a…
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"Gotcha!"

Oct 16, 2014 by
Fr. Joe Gillespie, OP

When is the last time someone “gotcha?” I was sitting in an…
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"Don't leave before the miracle happens."

Oct 8, 2014 by
Fr. Joe Gillespie, OP

This past Sunday, October 5th, Pope Francis called for a creative and humble…
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"In vino veritas, in aqua sanitas."

Oct 8, 2014 by
Fr. Joe Gillespie, OP

The clinking of wine glasses had gotten the attention of the many wedding…
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"In vino veritas, in aqua sanitas."

Oct 4, 2014 by
Fr. Joe Gillespie, OP

The clinking of wine glasses had gotten the attention of the many wedding…