Life in a multicultural parish is like a marriage: It can only work if people are listening to each other.
Faith
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Baseball and forgiveness: It’s time for me to put my Astros grudge in the trash can
Before I’m a baseball fan, I’m a Christian. And Jesus is pretty clear about forgiveness.
Posted inFaith, Scripture Reflections
What kind of sheep are you?
A Reflection for Thursday of the Thirty-First Week in Ordinary Time, by Christopher Parker
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis in Bahrain: What to know and expect
The pope will meet with the Grand Imam of Al Azhar, Ahmad Al-Tayyeb, at the interreligious meeting “Bahrain Forum for Dialogue: East and West for Human Coexistence.”
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
Our lives on earth end. Our souls don’t.
The people we loved and who we became because we loved, these shall not pass.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
Why Edith Stein is the perfect saint for All Souls’ Day (and a world plagued by antisemitism)
On this Feast of All Souls, let us remember “our people,” living for God and for each other. We can live for both, and die for both.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Take me out to the ballgame: The majesty (and agony) of playoff baseball
Live baseball is more sublime and spiritually satisfying than any other sporting event—even when your team loses.
Posted inFaith
Pope Francis on All Souls’ Day: At our final judgment, all that counts is how we loved the poor.
The Gospel teaches people how to live while awaiting death and God’s judgment, loving because he is love, Pope Francis said during a Mass at St. Peter’s on All Souls’ Day.
Posted inFaith, Scripture Reflections
Life is stronger than death
A Reflection for the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed, by Cristobal Spielmann
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
What does it mean to become a saint?
The Solemnity of All the Saints reveals the relationship between who we are and who we should become, between time and eternity, between ourselves and the saints.