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Prayer for joy

Patron Saint of Joy

Sometimes joy can be really damn hard to come by. Many of us runners have struggled to find joy in our runs, in our training periods, or if you’re like me in our strength training sessions (ugh!).

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St. Gregory Nyssa on spiritual health

gregory nyssa

In a homily on the Beatitudes, Saint Gregory of Nyssa made a connection between seeking bodily health and spiritual health to illustrate a point. In both cases, he said, it’s not enough to just “know the causes of good health.” …