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Fifth Fruit:  Kindness The fruit of kindness begins to have meaning in our lives when we show compassion and generosity to those we encounter in our daily lives. Yet, until we allow ourselves to receive kindness from friend or stranger, our [...]

Fourth Fruit: Patience Patience is a wonderful fruit of the Spirit but not so easy to define. We know when we are not patient and when we are, usually after the fact, but like the Spirit, we see only the [...]

Third Fruit:  Peace "Be still and know that I am God" (Psalm 46:10), is a good interpretation of enduring peace. To be still is to rest in the quiet space of one's heart where nothing or no one penetrates, save God.  In our [...]

Second fruit:  Joy! Thomas Aquinas, in his Summa Theologica states that “...joy is with expansion of heart...”1 When I read this, I immediately recall Dr. Seuss’s Grinch, whose heart, after receiving the true meaning of Christmas “...grew three sizes larger that day.”2 Joy [...]

First fruit:  Love Have you ever thought of love, not simply as an emotion or choice, but as a real Presence; an Original, creating and pulsing its essence through all creation, through all time?  And if not, would you dare [...]

In 1963 Pope Paul VI designated "Good Shepherd Sunday" as the World Day of Prayer for Vocations.   We hear the voice of the Shepherd as we discern God's call in our lives. We celebrate and pray for all the [...]