A Reflection for the Thursday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time, by Ashley McKinless
Faith
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
History will not remember your prayers, but they still matter
Before faith becomes a list of what is believed, it is an actual experience of the living God. Our emotions, desires, joys or sorrows are, as we say, touched by grace.
Posted inFaith, The Word
What light and darkness represent in the Gospels
Jan. 22, 2023, The Third Sunday in Ordinary Time: Like the original disciples, as we observe and discern Jesus’ specific actions and words, we can catch glimpses of the light that leads us into the land of the living.
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Diocese issues guidance on gender dysphoria, calling for compassion and coherence with church teaching
New guidance and policies on ministering to people experiencing gender dysphoria released Jan. 16 by the Diocese of Des Moines, Iowa, call for compassion and coherence with the church’s teaching on gender and identity.
Posted inFaith, Speeches
Pope Francis: What should we do for people who leave the church? Jesus shows us the way.
In his second general audience on evangelization, Pope Francis explains how Jesus is a model of evangelization, whose “pastoral heart beats for the person who is lost and far away.”
Posted inFaith, Scripture Reflections
God gets angry. We can’t deny that.
A Reflection for Wednesday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time, by Ricardo da Silva, S.J.
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Sister André, a French nun and oldest known person in world, dies at age 118
Sister André, a Catholic convert raised in a Protestant family, was born Lucile Randon Feb. 11, 1904. She lived through the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic and through 10 pontificates.
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Pope Francis prays for victims of church bombing in Congo two weeks before visit
Authorities say Sunday’s bombing in Kasindi, a town in North Kivu province, killed at least 14 people and injured more than 60.
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How Martin Luther King Jr. helped me make sense of today’s Gospel
A Reflection for Monday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time, by Michael O’Loughlin
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Funeral for Cardinal Pell, critic and close advisor of Pope Francis, held at Vatican
Pope Francis imparted the final blessing at the funeral of Cardinal Pell, who decried his papacy as a “catastrophe.”