Columnists
Feminism did not Kill Chivalry
Before I begin, let me preface this by saying that it is an extremely rough sketch of a very complex topic. If there are any
Ryan Kraeger
May 11, AD 2015
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Family
Pray, Read and Exercise: We Have the Time
Since becoming a father I can’t even count the number of times I have heard variations of “Oh, you’ll see, just wait. Once you have
Ryan Kraeger
April 13, AD 2015
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Pull Your Weight
Life has brought a lot of changes for me over the last year. This time last year I was a Green Beret, deployed with my
Ryan Kraeger
March 16, AD 2015
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Being Old
Recently I helped move my wife’s grandma into her new assisted living facility. It is a nice place, and the folks who live there seem
Ryan Kraeger
January 19, AD 2015
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Could you not stay awake for one hour?
I love holy hours. In the last year or so they have become my favorite devotion, and I try to make a holy hour as
Ryan Kraeger
December 22, AD 2014
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T. S. Eliot and the Widow’s Mite
It was with great excitement a few weeks ago that I began reading “T. S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life,” by Lyndall Gordon. It would be
Ryan Kraeger
November 24, AD 2014
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Columnists
Keys
I know a man, a very good and even holy man, whom I love dearly. This man has a curious and unassailable certainty that if
Ryan Kraeger
October 27, AD 2014
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Columnists
Babies R Us, Or, How I Realized That My Survival was a Miracle
Creating a baby registry at Babies R Us, can be something of a spiritual epiphany. As my wife and I approached the priestesses at the
Ryan Kraeger
September 29, AD 2014
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Columnists
Meditation
O Jesus, dwelling before me in the form and likeness of bread; containing your uncontainable infinity with the confines of a tiny wafer, which rests
Ryan Kraeger
September 1, AD 2014
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Mary
Hail Mary: The Catholic Gateway Drug
Once upon a time I was a teenage Catholic who wanted to go to heaven when I died, someday. I figured I would get the
Ryan Kraeger
August 4, AD 2014
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Columnists
The White Rosary
Your appearance disturbs me, you should not be, (fourteen years old and 5 foot 2) so light; barely into triple digit weight. You should not
Ryan Kraeger
July 7, AD 2014
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Art
Busy Mystic
I turn away with an ineffable sense of loss, From the overwhelming presence of the thunderous Dove To the silence of Monday morning push and
Ryan Kraeger
June 9, AD 2014
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Spirituality
Two Rivers
I had seen General Santos City from the air before, but one sees things differently from a fixed wing aircraft than from a helicopter. The
Ryan Kraeger
April 14, AD 2014
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Columnists
Holy Crap: Being a Post Chiefly About Poop!
“A man goes upright and the food of his body is sealed as in a purse full fair; and when it is time of his
Ryan Kraeger
March 17, AD 2014
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Catholic Education
If You Let Them, They Will Build
I recently read an article about childhood and play and the increasingly all pervasive place of school in the lives of children. School work which
Ryan Kraeger
January 20, AD 2014
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Masterpieces upon this Transient Earth
Sometimes things that I see or read just speak to me. I cannot say why at the moment. As my cousin, a photographer and independent
Ryan Kraeger
December 31, AD 2013
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Columnists
There Are Problems, and Then There Are, Well, Not Problems
This video has been circulating the internet for a while now. I saw it for the first time about a week ago. I, for one,
Ryan Kraeger
December 23, AD 2013
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With the Point of a Nail
I walked through the yard where they were collecting the bodies of those killed by the typhoon. They bring them in on trucks, collecting them
Ryan Kraeger
November 25, AD 2013
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The Necessity of Frivolity
One of the things that I often ponder is the relationship between the Christian and wealth. That is, how much wealth should I accumulate, how
Ryan Kraeger
October 28, AD 2013
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Inward Eyes
I tend to be a very introspective individual. My spiritual life consists largely in self-examination, and used to be even more so. I would look
Ryan Kraeger
October 28, AD 2013
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Beautiful Day
*Warning: This Post Mentions Gynecological Medical Procedures.* Today was one of those days; those days when I get up at 3:00 A.M. with
Ryan Kraeger
September 30, AD 2013
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