Br. Patrick Bubel, O.P., on Making Time for the Present Moment

"'Happy Opening Day!'

"Baseball fans will exchange this happy greeting in two days, when the 2023 MLB season officially begins. Sadly, this greeting will often receive the perplexed response:  'Opening day for what?'

"Critics of baseball point to a troublesome decline in attendance and a lack of in-game excitement as evidence that baseball is losing relevance. . . .. 

"Stopgap efforts to change baseball in order to appeal to a younger generation will ultimately fail, however, unless a deeper problem is addressed. A deeper problem that doesn't only affect baseball."

In a recent commentary, Brother Patrick Bubel, O.P., reflected on how "we have forgotten how to enter into the present moment . . . and flee from any potential moment of silence and stillness."

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