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Earned
I was recently going through some of my old writings, reflections I wrote almost eight years ago now.
8 hrs ago
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Mark Quaranta
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Hearing and listening
Anyone with kids knows there’s a big difference between hearing and listening.
Oct 2
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Mark Quaranta
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Brick by brick
“The secret to building the city of God within us is this: we have to build on a brick by brick basis in the reality of the present moment.” — Chiara…
Oct 1
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Mark Quaranta
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September 2026
Seek His Face
“Thy face, Lord, do I seek.”
Sep 30
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Mark Quaranta
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2:41
Reputation
Who cares what other people think?
Sep 29
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Mark Quaranta
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Totality
“It is not quantity that gives the full measure of a sacrifice, but totality.” — Georges Chevrot
Sep 28
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Mark Quaranta
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The Cult of Selfishness
Chevrot has a phrase I really like and dislike — but I recognize its truthfulness: the “cult of selfishness.”
Sep 25
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Mark Quaranta
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3:09
Get back up
“Perseverance does not consist in never falling, but in always raising ourselves up again.” — Georges Chevrot
Sep 24
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Mark Quaranta
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2:36
Vocation of the Moment
“Every prayer that we address to God ought, as its first aim, to teach us our vocation of the moment.” — Georges Chevrot
Sep 23
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Mark Quaranta
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2:29
If not you, then who?
Continuing our reflections from Simon Peter: Lessons from the First Pope by Georges Chevrot — Chevrot opens with the nature of vocation, defining it…
Sep 22
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Mark Quaranta
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2:48
The Lens of St. Peter
I have a simple pleasure: finding books I’ve never heard of that turn out to be hidden gems — readable, insightful, accessible, and somehow flying under…
Sep 21
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Mark Quaranta
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2:48
Any circumstance
“Lord, I accept all of these circumstances, whatever You want, whenever and however You so desire.” — Tanquerey
Sep 16
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Mark Quaranta
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