The early Christian record is not what we should expect from the human weakness to exploit the truth to serve one’s own ends.
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Good Friday homily: Did God the Father demand the death of his Son?
While God the Father did not will the death of the Son, we can still ask why the Father permitted it. The answer lies in the act of our creation.
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St. Mark’s Gospel: A Murder Mystery?
At the beginning of his Passion, Jesus bears witness to the truth as he allows himself to be proclaimed the messiah.
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Christ asks us what he asked himself: What is the meaning of life?
Christ goes to his death insisting that his life has meaning. When and how he will die can be left to speculation but not so why he dies.
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If you think you have God figured out, you don’t
If you think you’ve got him, you don’t. Indeed, you don’t have him until he has you!
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We need to make space and time for God
As creatures of time and space, we acknowledge the God who fills both by setting aside, sanctifying some of each for God.
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Relationship is essential to God’s life—and ours
In the cross of Christ, God sunders God’s self to draw us and those whom we love into God’s life, which is pure relationship, a love that precedes existence.
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You’ve heard of Pascal’s Wager. This Lent, get to know Pascal’s God.
After Pascal’s death, a note, written in his own hand, was discovered, sewn into the lining of his coat. He felt compelled to record the moment when the God about whom one might speculate became his living God.
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Why we need to hear the reminder ‘you are dust’ every year on Ash Wednesday
We have a cycling liturgical year because the truths of our faith are larger than we can receive all at once. Perhaps ashes say it best, but even they can’t say it all, not all at once.
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In the Eucharist, Christ becomes present to us
Reading sacred Scripture or watching a televised Eucharist can be powerful meditations, but neither rises to the level of sacrament, the mystery by which Christ promises his presence to his church.