Staying behind closed doors may make us feel safe, but it keeps us from the people, the events and experiences that we need in order to grow into the selves we were meant to become.
Terrance Klein
The Rev. Terrance W. Klein is a priest of the Diocese of Dodge City and author of Vanity Faith.
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If contagion comes from sin, in Christ’s death God gives the vaccine
The contagion that matters most the Son of God will receive into his own flesh.
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What Holy Thursday means when we cannot gather as church
The core of the church is contained in these words of Christ: “Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them” (Mt 18:20). The church must gather, must be collected by the call of Christ in order to fully be the church.
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What is Easter without the Eucharist?
A virus can keep us from gathering. A spirit-wound, it can curtail the sacramental life Christ gave us. But no virus can separate us from Christ.
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In his Passion, Christ is true to his preaching
The preaching of our Lord in the Gospel of St. Matthew—the Beatitudes, the Sermon on the Mount, the parables—has come to a close. Now the preacher embraces his passion.
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Jesus is resolute in the face of death. Are we?
Nothing is more certain than death. Yet normally, nothing is more hidden from our view. We do most everything that we can to not look death in the face.
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What does it mean to live in the light amid coronavirus fears?
Horrible things happen in the dark when people are afraid. We must now give witness. If we live in the light, it should be evident. Even in a time of virus.
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How should we carry the weight and worry that come with life?
The call of Christ can appear as one more demand upon your time and energy.
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A prayer for loved ones who have not found the Lord
Lord, why do you grant me the grace to see you so clearly, yet deny this same gift to the one whom I so desperately love?
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Ashes and Masses cannot manipulate God
We are always tempted to make faith into something that we handle, not a way by which we surrender.