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.
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The line between sin and holiness is not drawn at the doors of the church.
Consider the countless souls, those alive today and all those in generations past, who have never been given an opportunity to respond to the Gospel the church preaches.
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Shunning the sinful is still division.
Once you allow a notion of yours, however right and righteous, to separate you from the community, you have become the victim of sin. You are not its solution.
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Epiphany Saves Christmas from Sentimentality
The three are equally telling: here is the promised Messiah; here is the very presence of God; and here is the one who has come among us to die.
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Make your life a chapter in the Gospel, the story of salvation
A Reflection for the Solemnity of the Holy Family