A Homily for the Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time, by Father Terrance Klein
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A glimpse of heaven from a childhood tree house
A Homily for the Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time, by Father Terrance Klein
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You cannot heal the sickness you do not see
It is hard to say which dawns first: the awareness of our brokenness or the acknowledgment that God is our savior, the one who makes us whole.
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What to do when it feels like God isn’t listening
“How long, O LORD? I cry for help, but you do not listen!” We may indeed be crying, but we need not fear that God is not listening.
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How the human heart can be both callous and compassionate
How do we look at each other and not see ourselves?
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Moving as a metaphor for life
Moving, changing jobs: These are pale images of the transformation we call the Gospel, the call of Christ to radically reorient our worlds.
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What is revealed in the cross of Christ?
The cross of Christ does not take away suffering. No, it makes it meaningful because it announces what had never really been revealed before: the senseless enigma of human sin.
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When it comes to the Mass, too many of us act like bored teens at the dinner table
Are adults at Mass not something like teenagers at the dinner table? Putting in our time, not able to see what it means to be gathered into the family we call the church.
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From French aristocrat to Catholic hermit: St. Charles de Foucauld shows humility is the way to God
A Homily for the Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time, by Father Terrance Klein
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We all make bad choices. But we can always find our way back to God.
A Homily for the Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time, by Father Terrance Klein