This Christmas, please help me remember a few simple things.
Prayer
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The message of Epiphany: Rise up; Your light has come!
Today’s feast commemorates the “physical” revelation of Christ, the moment when Gentiles recognized the incarnate Messiah.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Monks aren’t the ones living in silence and solitude. We are.
After a visit to Christ in the Desert, I knew it was not the monks whose lifestyle I should question.
Posted inFaith, News
Pope Francis suggests translation change to the ‘Our Father’
The pope wants to to clear up the confusion around the phrase “lead us not into temptation.”
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Immaculate Conception: The feast that calls us to live lives ‘full of grace’
When we trust the action of grace in our lives, God will, over time, craft for us a life many times better than any we left behind.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Learning to pray on the pediatric oncology ward
Healing for my baby daughter was the hardest thing to ask for. I was afraid of false hope.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
There’s no problem with praying after a mass shooting—but what does that prayer look like?
The real problem is not the offering of prayers in the face of tragedy but the interpretation of what prayer entails.
Posted inFaith, The Word
A Talent for the Gospel
When the Master returns, he will want to know what we did to further the compassion, humility, freedom and love he entrusted to us.
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Inherit the Kingdom
God’s “sheep” know their dependence. Knowledge of their own need for grace opens their hearts to the needs of others.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
In purgatory, God turns back time—and transforms sin
God’s mercy finds a way to fix, in time, in us, what a time of sin has distorted.