If you think you’ve got him, you don’t. Indeed, you don’t have him until he has you!
Lent
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For Catholics, it isn’t enough to just know and follow the rules.
Rules are important, but they only exist to safeguard loving relationships. The Catechism is not a penal code, but our guide to a life lived in love.
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Every human heart contains an infinite desire for God. What does that mean in a finite world?
What does Jesus do with panicked hearts? He reveals that God’s desire for us exceeds our desire for God!
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Want a better prayer life this Lent? Start by being honest with God about everything. (Yes, everything.)
Honesty means sharing things you might consider inappropriate for conversation with God.
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Use this time of Lent to reorient yourself towards serving others
We must ask ourselves: Is my ambition driven by the desire serve, or do I simply want a better seat at the table?
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This Lent, remember that the key to God’s forgiveness is to forgive others
Our list of sins may be long; but God’s forgiveness is limitless, and in today’s Gospel, he has given us the key to receiving his mercy: “Forgive and you will be forgiven.”
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Jesus warns against an ‘us versus them’ attitude. We should give it up this Lent.
One way of repenting during Lent is to acknowledge our narrow attitudes about who is “in” and who is “out.” Jesus’ message is emphatically that everyone is in.
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Archbishop García-Siller: The Texas weather disaster reminds us that we all need a Good Samaritan
This week has brought us all into close contact with human suffering. We are all like the man on the side of the road in the story of the Good Samaritan, beaten and bloody.
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Saint Peter’s flaws are a reminder that God loves us just as we are
Jesus did not choose Peter because of his righteousness and courage. He chose Peter because he was imperfect, complicated, a sinner.
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Why Catholics are so obsessed with Jesus’ death and suffering: A meditation
Life is just a very terrible thing at times, and Christ knew it and we know it and the church seems to know it. The church is something that deals, quite unflinchingly, in reality.