We are all about individual rights, personal narratives and the freedom to choose. So was the Prodigal Son, until the food ran out.
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How can we trust others in our fallen world?
The question of trust, of giving ourselves to something outside ourselves, is quite fundamental. It goes to the nature of who we are as human beings. One might pose the question this way: Are we clams or clovers?
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Why is our prayer met with God’s silence?
Intimacy can only be shared between those who love. It cannot be summarized. Intimacy lives in silence.
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The most dangerous Devil is the one you cannot see
If you picture a dark-winged figure tempting Jesus in the desert, you reduce the real power of evil. Why? Because you have removed the devil’s greatest advantage: the darkness of confusion.
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Ash Wednesday tells us it’s never too late to change your life
Life does not have to be this way. You don’t have to be this way. You can begin again. All that you require has been here all along. You need only return to the mystery of your own baptism.
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When we reject reality we’re also turning away from God
To live in the real, to reject illusion is to set our face toward growth and toward God.
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Want to become a saint? Pretend to be someone you admire for a day.
You might ask, “Shouldn’t we all pretend to be Jesus?” We should, but that does not seem to have gotten most of us all that far. Perhaps a humbler role is a better beginning.
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There is a reason the Beatitudes are hard to believe
The Beatitudes do not describe the world in which we live. They tell us how to live in this world so as to seed one yet to come. Belief in another world gives us the courage to resist and to renew this one.
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If you have felt regret, you know what it means to sin—and to grow
We feel regret when we recognize that are past behaviors were too small, too defensive, too rooted in our own selves.
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Does suffering always lead to greatness?
By itself, suffering is no gateway to greatness. Yet it’s hard to find titans of history who didn’t know great sorrow.