Religion is what happens when spirituality moves from speculation and desire into participation and commitment.
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Why is Pontius Pilate in our creed?
A mystic declaration links all its cosmography to a concrete moment in history.
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Knowing how the story ends makes surrendering to death possible
You can cherish life and surrender it when you know that it is never insignificant, that your story matters, that you exist to love the author of our tale.
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Love does not calculate. It just loves.
Jesus does not draw attention to the widow and her “two small coins” because he wants you to do some good work or to donate a certain percentage of your resources.
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On All Souls Day, we come face to face with the least comprehensible part of life: death.
We experience the death of others—but not as they do. We only know that they are gone, and that fact alone is nigh impossible to comprehend.
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To understand the communion of saints, look to the abundance of nature
The utter multitude of souls created and redeemed by God is necessary to imagine even a fraction of God’s plenitude.
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Afraid of silent prayer? You’re not alone.
Many of us avoid contemplative prayer because we are more afraid of God’s non-existence than we are sure that we will experience God’s presence.
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Lord, deliver us from lying to ourselves
God is more than we can comprehend, and sin limits what we can understand.
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For Christians, to love is to open yourself up to suffering
In itself, suffering is never a good thing. But if someone we love is suffering, then we want our share of it.
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St. Ignatius shows us that falling in love with God takes serious commitment
What do I love in life that stands between me and the love of my life? What stands between me and my Lord?