We have experienced God’s benevolent interventions in our own lives.
Lent
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Fr. James Martin, S.J.: It’s Lent. Give to the poor—generously
Jesus asks us to be generous with the poor. It’s one of the foundations of his public ministry: caring for the poor himself and asking his disciples to do so.
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What does God take delight in? Our trust.
We are invited, today, to listen—and as the psalmist today colorfully puts it, God has even done us the courtesy of digging out our ears so that we can hear.
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Is forgiveness out of fashion?
Even in our relationships with family and friends, forgiveness can be hard to come by.
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I learned on Holy Thursday that in times of trouble, women know the way out
That woman is in so many parishes, right there beneath the exit sign and almost out the door, singing while the roof gets ripped off and the sky falls.
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What does Joseph’s story have to say about God’s will for us?
Even when events are messy and motives are questionable and hardships abound, we must trust that God’s unknowable power is at work.
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Don’t fly away, stay rooted in God’s love
Most of us are so removed from agricultural realities that we fail fully to embrace the image of chaff in today’s psalm.
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How can we avoid the evil spirits around us (and within us)?
Do we still believe there are “evil spirits who prowl through the world, seeking the ruin of souls,” as the prayer of St. Michael the Archangel memorably phrases it?
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Why I had to climb Rome’s Holy Stairs (on my knees) to believe them
Before long I had tears in my eyes—and not from the uneven grooves worn into the wood by pilgrims’ knees. Something about the physical discomfort helped me to focus on the much greater pain Jesus had felt on those same stairs.
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God will never ‘ghost’ or ‘unfriend’ you
Over against our human unreliability stand the rock-solid assurances of God.