Fr. Joe Hennessy's Blog

So then, when we are in a really tough spot and not yet awakened or enlightened, we think  “Well this is it.  This is the end.” Woe!! is me. In hindsight, which is always 20/20 what I, at the time, thought were endings were in reality beginnings.  The beginnings of a new and a better …

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“Joe, things are not looking good, we are really…..” was the frequent favorite expression of a fellow Irishman.  As I look back on those not so good and not so great days I can now see in them the place where for me, the rubber really began to really hit the road.  I was forced …

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With the deepening of trust came the deepening of faith. With an ever deepening faith that word “must” resonated with a deeper and a more freeing meaning.  It is like, if I want to enjoy that Envy apple I must take a bite and chew on it. That word “must” is now like the bite …

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Over life’s journey I have had to learn how insidious, death-dealing is toxic shame. Since our origin is the infinite love and will of our creator God we of our essence are good.  Fr.Rohr puts it this way. “Our deepest DNA is divine.” Do we believe in that essential goodness? If a person is the …

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Honest reflection has led me to discover over that, over the years that my journey into honest conversation with my Higher Power, the Power of Love has been a long slow process. Boundaries had to be broken and horizons embraced and welcomed.  The journey into honesty in communication with the same The Power Of Love …

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In the Gospel it was not until, at the direction of Jesus, that the apostles fished in deeper waters that their work was rewarded. So ask for the grace to accept that which for right now looks unacceptable or unattainable, the courage to go deeper and meet the Unknown in your unknown. Then HANG On. […]

Honest reflection has led me to discover over that over the years that my journey into honesty in conversation with my Higher Power has been a slow process. My process into honesty with hand-in- hand with an ever developing trust. I was loved into that trust. With the deepening of trust came the deepening of […]

“A life not reflected on has no meaning” so wrote Aristotle many many moons ago. As it was true then so it is true for us today. Our lives cry out for meaning. The great questions bubble up from our depths, “Who am I?” “Does my life have any meaning?” “Is this all there is?” […]

The Prophet Jesus’ own immediate FAMILY WENT SO FAR AS TO QUESTION HIS SANITY while others questioned, His SANCTITY. Conversion into the reality of Who He really had to happen. As it was for them so it is for all of us. There are no exceptions. The spiritual life, while it bestows so much unfortunately […]

Our conversion demands of us to let go of all previous lightening systems. As that happens, from the pythian darkness a gentle flickering light breaking through. That flickering light, which can only be seen and followed in darkness, will be all that we in need. Such as it was, so it is for you and […]