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?
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Like old work boots, the soul is marked by the seasons of life.
How we picture our souls matters. Uncolored cartoons and geometrical points do not change or weather. They do not grow in response to what happens in the world around them. But we do.
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If we do not have God, we are like the walking dead
If we ourselves cannot hear or see what truly matters, are we the walking dead?