You cannot be a Christian and not live an eschatological life, which is to say, you must live one marked by a patient expectation in the promise and plan of Jesus.
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How do we know if our prayers have been answered?
When we truly give ourselves to prayer, we know that we are in the presence of another—not always but rather often without any doubt.
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The Eucharist is the opposite of fast food
Fast food makes only one promise. That it is fast. Christ promises to feed us with food that will last.
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How we know God intends to be fair
To preach Jesus is primarily to preach a path, a call to action, not ethical precepts.
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In the Eucharist, Christ gives us comfort
We need some comforting, all of us. A moment when we are drawn away from our troubles, a slice of life without its accompanying sorrows.
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Our relationship with Christ should be a romance
It does not matter that you have already given your love to Jesus. Romance is a living thing. You either nourish it or it dies.
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On Corpus Christi, we are reminded that creation is a gift from God
On this day, under the appearance of bread and wine, Christ claims creation itself to be his eucharistic body and blood.
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What an absent Father can teach us about the Trinity
A father is a father even when he is absent.
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On Pentecost Jesus gives us a love that never dies
Christ did not rise from the dead to roam the cosmos. He rose from the dead to enter each human heart, to dwell there as a love that never dies, never diminishes.
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At the Ascension, Christ lifts our history into heaven
Christ has carried our humanity into God. This means that we matter, that what happens to the least of us matters.