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.
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What to do when Christ turns your world upside down
God is ever ancient, ever new, ever the same, but we were created to wax and to wane.
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How do you recognize God’s grace? You’ll probably feel both attraction and fear.
There are two marks that tell us we are in the presence of something, someone, not ourselves: desire and fear.
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To discern the will of God, pay attention to faces over ideas
The disciples of Jesus were not pursuing ideas as they were coming to love and to understand a person.