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Also, Keating poignantly notes that science and religion are no longer leading people to the spirit and calls for a spiritual renewal. I feel like I'm reading Steiner.

Here's a paraphrase: the Spirit is not something we strive to reach or achieve; it's a presence we consent to recognize.

Slow and deliberate. This is not my usual reading style.

This hardly feels like the same book I read (and loved) last year. I even forgot that I read (and loved) it last year. I'm a little further on the contemplative path this time around, and different things are speaking to me. I find myself needing to use the Lectio method with this book; last time around, I'm pretty sure I just chugged it.

Personal realization: the sacraments are not an event in which we receive something we did not already possess; they are an opportunity to recognize, name, and celebrate what we have already been given.