Who would make sunshine, flowers, rainbows, puppies and babies without expecting anything in return?
The Good Word
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Christ’s resurrection reveals the dignity and destiny of humankind
Leonardo da Vinci believed that man was a microcosm of the world, imbued with meaning.
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Did the Christ Child know his crucifixion was coming?
Leonardo da Vinci suggests that what did happen is what had to have happened.
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How Leonardo da Vinci painted us all into ‘The Last Supper’
We are all part faithful, part faithless.
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A lesson from the disciple of Jesus who ran away naked
If we have run, if we have been exposed for all the world to see, it is not our failure that matters most. It is Christ’s strength.
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Are we brave enough to contemplate our own deaths?
If faith isn’t a strong ship, how can we expect it to carry us over the waters of death?
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What can we learn from the sins of the saints?
Have you heard the saints confess? It fills you with wonder at God’s grace, so clearly at work in their lives, in our world.
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Rules have their place in religion—but we need zeal to be fully human
Rules protect life, but they do not enhance it.
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Reading Abraham’s sacrifice of Isaac through the Parkland shooting
What can the church and her Scriptures say to those who are broken?
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Lent asks us to travel to a new world. Asceticism is what gets us there.
Christians are called to asceticism as a way of reaching out, in faith, toward a life to come.