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Those We Have Lost Are Still With Us
A reflection on Transgender Day of Remembrance.
Breath of the Spirit: Lenten Encouragement to Let Go
March 13, 2024
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DignityUSA
In todays fastpaced world we find ourselves delaying checkins for noncrucial issues This weeks readings invite us to revisit the parts of us that we can let go of during the Lent if we seek to move toward our more authentic selves
Breath of the Spirit: Love in Light and Darkness
March 7, 2024
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DignityUSA
If one is not careful they can read Jesus words to Nicodemus as if light and darkness were enemies Todays reflection reminds us however that those two realities are interdependent We cot fully experience one without the other And Love
Book Review: My Life as a Boy Priest Gay Man and Artist by Jan Haen
March 1, 2024
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DignityUSA
Father Jan Haen has come full circle After two previous rewarding and interesting books Heavenly Homos Etc and Heavenly LGBTQ+ on LQBTQIA themes Father Haen has now written a visual autobiography that truly portrays him as a Man for all
Breath of the Spirit: Helping Each Other Drink From Our Own Wells
February 28, 2024
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DignityUSA
Jesus offers the woman at the well living water but that Jesus offer wells up from within her Jesus opens us to receive what we already have! Is there a better model for how we as disciples are to live in the world? Through our inter
Breath of the Spirit: Finding Hope in Order to Cope
February 26, 2024
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DignityUSA
Jesus transfiguration can seem like a mysterious miracle that defies explanation or relevance to our own lives But todays reflection reminds us that Jesus change is grounded in the same belovedness which is the Divines gift to all creat
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Breath of the Spirit: Of Rainbows Moonbows and Flood Myths: And the Reign of God Visible Even in Darkness
February 26, 2024
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DignityUSA
Too often Christians approach Lent as just another in a long list of things we are supposed to do Todays reflection however encourages us to see Lent as an invitation to deeper participation in the Reign of God a reality not defined by long lists of
Synod Input Survey
February 22, 2024
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DignityUSA
will be using input gathered from testimonies and reflections submitted to us to send a second report representing the thoughts and concerns of LGBTQIA+ Catholics Allies and friends to both the Synod Secretariat and the Synod Team of the US Conferenc
Breath of the Spirit Reflection: Outside the Camp
February 9, 2024
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DignityUSA
Love pulls us toward the center of a community As LGBTQIA+ people we have often had to build our own communities to find that center and experience that pull But we can experience the centering pull of love even in the Church Just a important todays
Breath of the Spirit Reflection: There Is a Balm In Gilead But It Cannot Stay There!
January 31, 2024
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DignityUSA
For centuries the community of believers has proclaimed through song and prayer that the Divine Mercy is vast However todays reflection reminds us there not everyone appreciates such expansive compassion Further if we do not carry this healing power
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