Spirituality

This resource will feature weekly Sunday Reflections based on the readings from Sacred Scripture written by Ted Wolgamot, Psy.D. The readings are found in those cycles common to the Catholic Church, the Episcopal Church, and most mainstream Protestant churches. It will also include a blog written by a guest, articles of interest in the spiritual world, and books that have been found to be of special import.

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How to Grow Faith

Even with 20 years of formal Catholic education, I’ve struggled with faith most of my adult life. Does God exist? Was Jesus really God? Am I fooling myself about God, ...

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Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time

  “Two men went up to the Temple to pray ….” Lk. 18: 10 Comedian Rodney Dangerfield used to tell this joke: “I went to the doctor the other day ...

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Magical Thinking?

I recently finished a book called “Not Forgotten, the True Story of My Imprisonment in North Korea” by Kenneth Bae. The author, a Korean-American who had emigrated to the U.S. ...


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Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time

“ … pray always without becoming weary” Lk. 18:1   Persistence. That’s been the customary explanation given for the point to this gospel story. Only the way we have often ...

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Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time

“… and he fell at the feet of Jesus and thanked him. He was a Samaritan.” Lk 17:16 One of the great mystics of the Church, Meister Eckhart, once wrote: ...

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The Case for Change

A few years ago, I visited a Greek Orthodox monastery in Arizona with my wife, sister and brother-in-law. It was a beautiful, tranquil place, an oasis in the desert. But ...