It takes a certain grace to see how fear clips our wings.
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We celebrate the Eucharist every week. Why do we need Corpus Christi?
On this feast, we concentrate upon the Eucharistic elements themselves: the bread and the wine, which become the very presence of Christ in our midst.
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Reason does not reveal the Trinity. The Trinity reveals itself to us.
You can’t define the Trinity—but you are still meant to share it.
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Why does Pentecost come at the time of spring harvest?
The Spirit is the Lord of the Harvest. The Spirit brings it, brings us, to fruition.
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What the Feast of the Ascension teaches us about time
Community, sacrament and Scripture: by means of these three mysteries Christ and his church would defy time.
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How to keep the Holy Spirit from becoming a slogan
What is to keep any movement or ideology from claiming the authority of the Spirit?
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What writing about our parents can tell us about God
To profess that Jesus was truly human is to insist that he grew as we do.
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How do you recognize the voice of Christ? It’s all in ‘The Shoop Shoop Song.’
“It’s in his kiss.” A kiss takes two. When you see how different the other is and yet are drawn in, Christ is calling.
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The last suppers of Jesus Christ and Ledell Lee
To take Holy Communion in the face of death is to say that it is fellowship, and not food, that matters most.
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What Saints Thomas and Thérèse learned when they touched the body of Christ
If we have faith, like Thomas and Thérèse did, we learn from Jesus that to love someone is to promise never to leave them.