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Dear Souls and Hearts Members, Five days ago, I discovered a paper titled Exploring Experts’ Perspectives on Spiritual Bypass: a Conventional Content Analysis , by Gabriela Picciotto and Jesse Fox from the February 2018 volume of Pastoral Psychology – I have to share...
Dear Souls and Hearts Members, Last week, in the reflection titled Spiritual Bypassing: Catholic Style I introduced and defined spiritual bypassing. We covered the “what” of spiritual bypassing, and we came up with this summary: The three critical components of...
Dear Souls and Hearts Members, In our reflection from last week, Naturalizing and Spiritualizing: Two Errors Catholics Make , we explored how devout Catholics spiritualize as a way to protect themselves. To review: What does it mean to spiritualize the natural? It...
Dear Souls and Hearts Members, As you already know, my primary purpose is to help you discover any barriers you may have on the natural level that compromise your closeness with our Lord, your ability to love your neighbor and to love yourself in an ordered way. To...
Dear Souls and Hearts Members, Many of you may be exhausted in the aftermath of all the “doing” in preparation for Christmas Day. The annual marathon of planning, scheduling, shopping, decorating, wrapping gifts, baking cookies, preparing food and drink, facilitating...
Dear Souls and Hearts Members. Get ready. In this reflection we are about to get into some of the most important human formation work a Catholic can do. A brief review of needs, God concepts, and God images Let’s review of the ground we have already cultivated to...
Dear Souls and Hearts Members, Last week, we discussed the top 10 needs that fuel modern-day idol worships, and you can check that out here in our archive. Today, we approach the question of idols from a completely different direction. Bur first, I want to make a...
Dear Souls and Heart Community, It happens to so many devout Catholic parents of adult children. They hear words like this during the all the family reunites at Christmas Eve: “Mom, Dad, I’m not going to Midnight Mass this year. I haven’t gone to Mass in years. I...
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