Cormac Stagg

Mystic in the Ignatian Tradition, Writer, Poet and Public Speaker

The Art of Spiritual Surrender

Radically Redeeming Ordinariness I was born on the cusp of dawn, near back of beyond, on the silent banks of a lonesome lake where rainbow trout swim wild and free. Fed since birth of a strict diet of poetry and song about Ireland’s rebel cause. Weakness and surrender were simply nowhere to be found in

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Innocence Caught in the Crosshairs

Oh Children of Gaza Ah, the wars they will be fought again. The holy dove, she will be caught again, bought and sold, and bought again… — Leonard Cohen Amid a war pulverized Gaza, on a dusty road in soul searing heat, emerges a barefoot tattered and torn young girl, maybe seven or eight years

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The Power of Vulnerability

Powerlessness is Our Super-Power There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community. — M Scott Peck Our hearts, comrades, like faith, get forged in the fire of powerlessness, and strengthened in the deep well vulnerability. This is a

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