You can profess facts, but you can only trust a face. You can only entrust yourself to a person.
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How do we know if we are hearing the voice of God?
“The Lord speaks in the sacred Scriptures,” some might say. “There, you hear the voice of the shepherd.” This is good, but it is just not good enough.
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Our love is fierce but not always faithful. That’s why we need Christ.
Love is a resolve we must renew each day. We ought to remember this when we promise we will live differently, more deeply, once life returns to normal.
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Like the disciples, we are not meant to live behind locked doors.
Staying behind closed doors may make us feel safe, but it keeps us from the people, the events and experiences that we need in order to grow into the selves we were meant to become.
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If contagion comes from sin, in Christ’s death God gives the vaccine
The contagion that matters most the Son of God will receive into his own flesh.
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What Holy Thursday means when we cannot gather as church
The core of the church is contained in these words of Christ: “Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them” (Mt 18:20). The church must gather, must be collected by the call of Christ in order to fully be the church.
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What is Easter without the Eucharist?
A virus can keep us from gathering. A spirit-wound, it can curtail the sacramental life Christ gave us. But no virus can separate us from Christ.
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In his Passion, Christ is true to his preaching
The preaching of our Lord in the Gospel of St. Matthew—the Beatitudes, the Sermon on the Mount, the parables—has come to a close. Now the preacher embraces his passion.
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Jesus is resolute in the face of death. Are we?
Nothing is more certain than death. Yet normally, nothing is more hidden from our view. We do most everything that we can to not look death in the face.
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What does it mean to live in the light amid coronavirus fears?
Horrible things happen in the dark when people are afraid. We must now give witness. If we live in the light, it should be evident. Even in a time of virus.