Soul Seeing

Michael Leach and friends write about seeing God, the world and ourselves with the eye of the soul. Each column is a spiritual reflection on the beauty that hides behind appearances and the peace that is beyond all understanding.

God is the ocean in which we all swim

by Patrick T. Reardon

Sep 18, 2018

Soul Seeing: Things happen in life, good and bad. Good things happen to bad people. Bad things happen to good people. Life isn't fair as anyone knows who has come to the realization, as humans must, that we are born to die. You and I live under a death sentence.

Bishop Morrie resigns from diocese amid tears

by Michael Leach

Sep 4, 2018

Soul Seeing: On Sunday, Aug. 19, Morrie, my classmate from Mundelein Seminary, announced to his congregation that he had submitted a letter of resignation to Pope Francis.

This is why it's divine

by Dani Clark

Aug 21, 2018

Every Sunday afternoon, I volunteer at a nursing home with members of the Community of Sant’Egidio in Washington, D.C. Once a month we have Mass there. It’s a ragtag affair, a comedy of errors, and this is why I love it.

Ambition becomes quiet passion for life

by Joni Woelfel

Aug 7, 2018

Soul Seeing: If love is a lantern in our hand, I see the true spirit of ambition as the keeper of the flame — an eternal energy in our hearts put there by God to encourage, guide and draw us forward all the days of our lives, good, bad, light, dark, and everything in between.

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God is the ocean in which we all swim

Bishop Morrie resigns from diocese amid tears

This is why it's divine

Ambition becomes quiet passion for life

Blessed are you achievers, blessed are you duds

Lord, why am I not worthy?

Jew, Christian, Muslim: 'See the Beloved everywhere'

God is love, and God's face was looking at me for two years

Grace, human nature and my three homes

'Please ... forgive us': the story of my return to the church

Care for those in need, don't worry about 'credit'

The March for Our Lives changed me

Brace yourself: Here is the secret of happiness

Confessions of an 'in-between' Catholic

Shakespeare for your spiritual direction

Know what your duty is, do it without hesitation

The sacrament of touch

For a short while, we were Jackson's family

What I am praying when I say the Lord's Prayer

An 86-year-old priest's 10 resolutions for the New Year

The important thing is to keep planting and not give up

Life is headed somewhere good this Advent

The good that rises when the bottom falls out of life

I know there will always be kindness

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