Oblate Program at Belmont Abbey, NC

Tag: blindness

Bright flame

Sometimes it can’t be helped, two world views collide, for many reasons, some too deep to understand. Yet we still try, rifts come into play, words spoken, emotions flare, and two people walk away from each other thinking the other wrong. Sometimes the divide is simply so wide that no bridge can be built, the… Read More ›

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The mob (The dark desire to scapegoat)

I am not sure that there is anyone who could not be caught up in the mob mentality, or perhaps mass mind would be a better phrase.  You get a group together, fire them up and the momentum can take its individual members to places that they may have thought impossible.  Hangings, beatings and burnings… Read More ›

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Healing the blindness through the message of faith and the witness of love

St Raphael is presented to us, above all in the Book of Tobit, as the Angel to whom is entrusted the task of healing. When Jesus sends his disciples out on a mission, the task of proclaiming the Gospel is always linked with that of healing. The Good Samaritan, in accepting and healing the injured… Read More ›

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