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Prayer and Spirituality

Praying in the dark

BySister Julia Walsh December 3, 2014March 11, 2021

The light is dim and the air is frigid. With Advent’s arrival in this part of the world, we continue to feel the days shorten and the darkness increase. Whether the light is dimming or not, though, another type of darkness is also apparent: the darkness of suffering. Far and near, people experience violence, injustice and…

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Prayer and Spirituality

Street violence and holy darkness

BySister Julia Walsh December 6, 2013March 11, 2021

This past Monday one of my former students was shot and killed on the streets of Chicago. Advent is a time of darkness.  Sometimes it is obvious to us that there’s a such thing as holy darkness. And, sometimes the darkness is so cold and heavy that it seems to swallow our hope. During Advent we…

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