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An anonymous Living Waters leader
Jun 11, 20232 min read
Witnessing the Body of Christ in My Own Body
One year ago, as I left home for Mass to celebrate the feast of Corpus Christi (Latin for the Body of Christ), I had no idea that my life...
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Andrew Comiskey
May 15, 20232 min read
Raised to Raise Others
‘The Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My Name—He will teach you everything…’ (Jn. 14:26) What were they thinking?...
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Andrew Comiskey
May 1, 20233 min read
Dignity in Diapers?
Pope Francis’ poor word choice in describing the Church’s catechism on sexuality as ‘still in diapers’ (‘The Pope: Answers’, Hulu) can’t...
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Katie Comiskey
Apr 24, 20232 min read
Lifted Up
As one subject to self-pity and despair, the Lord has trained me to fight. I now recognize my temptation to a familiar despair. I have a...
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Andrew Comiskey
Apr 3, 20232 min read
Open Letter to Pope Francis: A Father Restores
Dear Pope Francis, We enter Holy Week fixed on Jesus. His wounds are magnetic to us, the wounded. I am grateful for your exhortation to...
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Andrew Comiskey
Mar 27, 20233 min read
Open Letter to Pope Francis: A Father Disciplines
Dear Pope Francis, I just returned from a Living Waters group where Jesus is healing broken lives aspiring to chastity. My co-teacher...
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Andrew Comiskey
Mar 20, 20233 min read
Open Letter to Pope Francis: A Father Guides
Dear Pope Francis, Thank you for fathering us generously. You eschew formalities, which invites us to pour out contradictions—desires in...
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Andrew Comiskey
Mar 6, 20233 min read
Open Letter to Pope Francis: A Father Confirms
Dear Pope Francis, You exemplify a father who draws near to sons and daughters to dignify them. You encourage us to aspire to more, to...
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Andrew Comiskey
Feb 20, 20232 min read
Open Letter to Pope Francis: A Father Listens
Pope Francis, Forgive my mild resistance to the ‘synod on synodality.’ The name itself tempts me to revert to evangelicalism; I resist. I...
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Andrew Comiskey
Feb 13, 20232 min read
Open Letter to Pope Francis
Dear Pope Francis, I write this as one father to another. We share a deep love for Jesus and Church. I honor your weighty fatherhood as...
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Andrew Comiskey
Jan 30, 20232 min read
Sin of Omission
‘We are all children of God and God loves us as we are…’ Pope Francis, on loving ‘LGBTQ+-identified’ people Pope Francis rightly...
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Andrew Comiskey
Jan 23, 20233 min read
The Prophet Pastors: How Truth Transfigures the Tender Care of Persons
‘The thing the Church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds…it needs nearness, proximity. I see the Church as a field hospital...
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Andrew Comiskey
Jan 8, 20233 min read
Epiphany of Benedict XVI
If Epiphany means to make something clear, then late great Pope Benedict is the Feast’s exemplar. ‘Stand firm in the faith! Don’t let...
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Marco Casanova
Dec 19, 20222 min read
Crossing the Threshold: Advent of Integration 4
‘When Joseph awoke, he did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took his wife into his home’ (Mt 1:24). I write this in sheer...
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Andrew Comiskey
Nov 16, 20223 min read
Dignify and Deploy 34: Living the Cross
‘Suffering is one of those points in which man in a certain sense is destined to go beyond himself.’ St. John Paul II ‘I resolved to...
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Andrew Comiskey
Nov 15, 20223 min read
Dignify and Deploy 33: Buoyant, Broken
‘We have firmly hoped, we will always hope, and we are and will be happy.’ Karol Wojtyla Bearing the weight of a billion person Church in...
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Andrew Comiskey
Nov 9, 20223 min read
Dignify and Deploy 27: Restoring Woman’s Dignity
‘He suffused me without difficulty, burst my shame and the thoughts I’d suppressed… As if He had touched a rhythm in my temples and...
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Andrew Comiskey
Oct 29, 20223 min read
Dignify and Deploy 16: Equipping Young Saints 1
‘Don’t be afraid to be saints! This is the liberty for which Christ has set us free…Dear young people, be won by Him!’ St. John Paul II...
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Andrew Comiskey
Oct 18, 20222 min read
Dignify and Deploy 5: Masters of Integration, Part 1
John Wimber and Karol Wojtyla possessed sharp creative minds that joined together disparate ideas. The resulting wholeness became a love...
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Andrew Comiskey
Oct 3, 20222 min read
Facing Futility, Tenderly
I could see and hear how much he wanted the relationship to work, to be true: he needed this new guy to be the one that silenced all the...
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