To See and Believe
Easter Sunday Scripture Readings This Easter morning, we are treated to the story of the Resurrection of Jesus according to John, the beloved disciple. While by this time, we’re well […]
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Who Is Risen?
“Do not be afraid! I know that you are seeking Jesus the crucified. He is not here, for he has been raised just as he said.”
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The Background Story
"It is finished"
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The Good Gift
"I have given you a model to follow, so that as I have done for you, you should also do."
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Step 12: Living a Spiritual Life in the World
In Step 10, we put in place strategies for maintaining our interconnections with others; in Step 11, we did the same for our interconnection with God. Now, we need to […]
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Step 11: Keeping Conscious Contact
With Step 10, we put in place a number of strategies that—with the help of God—will allow us to maintain healthy and effective relationships with our fellow travelers on planet […]
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Step10: Keeping Your Side Clean
Step 10 keeps our relationship with others in good order. Here is Step 10: “Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.” The essence of […]
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Expectations Can Be Deadly
"Hosanna to the Son of David; blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord; hosanna in the highest."
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Session 6 Review & Overview
Once more, we’re going to begin with a brief review of our sessions up until now. In our first session, we began by discussing spirituality in general. We said that […]
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Step 9: Reconciliation
Here we begin what may be the most challenging aspect of the Twelve Steps for Spiritual Growth. We’ve completed all the steps leading up to our final reconciliation with the […]
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Step 8: Preparing for Amends
In this session, we’ll be completing the re-establishment of our interconnections with our fellow women and men and any organizations or institutions we’ve harmed by our old attitudes and behaviors. […]
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First Lazarus, Now Me
“I am the resurrection and the life; whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live, and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die.”
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Anniversary Liturgy 2023: Paul Gould, Jr.
The central mystery of our Christian faith is contained in what we just heard read from the letter of Saint Paul to the Romans. In it, we are reminded of […]
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Session 5 Review & Overview
As usual, let’s begin with a brief review of our sessions up until now. Once again, in our first session, we began by discussing spirituality in general. We said that […]
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Step 7: Treatment
At this point, we should be well on our way toward completing our reintegration with our better, higher selves. We’ve diagnosed the issues that are interfering with our spiritual growth, […]
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Step 6: Diagnosis
In this session, we’ll be looking closely at the behaviors we uncovered in steps four and five to see the unhealthy patterns that consciously or unconsciously sabotaged our spiritual progress. […]
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Light from Darkness; Darkness from Light
"If he is a sinner, I do not know. One thing I do know is that I was blind and now I see."
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Session 4 Review & Overview
Let’s see where we are today. Once again, in our first session, we began by discussing spirituality in general. We said that spirituality is a universal sense of interconnection with […]
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Step 5: Cleaning House
Recall that, when we completed Step 3, “Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God,” we saw that we were on the […]
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Step 4 Inventory Worksheets
From this page, you can download the Moral Inventory Worksheets and Inventory Analysis Worksheets in either of two formats: Portable Document Format (.pdf), which you can download to print multiple […]