The Israelites are quite like us. They intend to offer a response that is steadfast but their own humanity, under the siege of sin, fails them.
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In the Assumption of Mary, Christ transforms creation. We are called to do the same.
Through us, as through the Virgin, Christ intends to touch and transform creation, to bless it and to make it holy.
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When we receive the Eucharist, we meet Jesus in the past, present and future.
Through the mystery of this sacrament Jesus reveals something inherent about himself and about our life in him.
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The Eucharist is not magic. It is Christ feeding us through fellowship.
Jesus does not magically feed us. He feeds us through fellowship, through the identity and love that flow from it.
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Aquinas once asked: What if a dog consumed a consecrated host?
St. Thomas teaches that a brute animal, who might consume the body and blood of Christ, would not receive Holy Communion, because sacraments are ordered towards faith.
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Good Shepherds do not shout at sinners — or scatter their flock
Jesus does not disdain the ignorant and the sinful. No, he sees, he pities and he engages.
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The spiritual practice of writing yourself a letter
The purpose of this little exercise is to see how you currently resist the grace of God. You may even discover that a pattern set in high school remains.
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God is more than an idea. God is a person.
There is the faith that we profess, and then there is the experience of faith by which we believe. One is a list of notions. The other is an encounter with a person.
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Political compromise in a democracy is not a moral evil
Democratic compromise is not a moral evil. And democratic leaders, charged to seek it, are not public sinners. Neither should be combatted with excommunication.
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Without God, evolution is not just indifferent — it’s torture
If we are not children of God, those who come from a loving Father—if we are only forms of evolved life—why does evolution create desires within us it cannot satisfy?