Accompaniment, unlike charity, can’t be done from a distance.
Prayer
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No one knows if the story of the magi is historically accurate, but its power remains
When you look for me, you will find me; (Jer 29:13)
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This Christmas and every Christmas, God’s Word is love.
Christ is all that God has to say to us, and Christ calls us to love.
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Christmas reminds us why we wait for God.
We wait, and we wait, and we wait. This is the message of tonight’s Gospel.
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What the mockingbird on my windowsill taught me about the spiritual life.
As long as I have lived here, almost 30 years now, a mockingbird has arrived every spring and stayed until the approach of winter.
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During Advent, we need to remember God wants us to rest.
What, though, if we constructed a boundary between our time and God’s, and made time stop?
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Cold Showers: Dec. 15, Third Thursday of Advent
To submit to the baptism of John is to admit that we don’t always get it right, in a myriad of ways.
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Oakland bishop prays for victims and responders to Oakland fire
As of Dec. 6, the death toll was 36 and officials said that no additional bodies have been recovered.
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I had given up on prayer. Depression taught me how much I needed it.
Without the weeks I spent easing back into prayer, I would not be alive today.
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Iraqi Christians in America pray for the chance to see their families again.
They “pray, pray” that family members can get out of northern Iraq before a major Islamic State attack.