Overwhelmed in the present, we have lost all feel for the future. So let’s say this of eternal life: It is where waiting comes to an end.
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Like a mother, the Lord worries when we go astray (and will let us know)
When we do wrong, our Lord can be as relentless as any mother.
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Love is the key to discipleship.
One might have expected a statement of disappointment or regret. Instead, Jesus speaks to his disciples of love.
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An encounter with divine love is an encounter with God’s own self.
As the first disciples trusted in the Advocate, they found a love that gave peace to their hearts.
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What Christ in the Eucharist teaches us about time and eternity
In the resurrection accounts, we are being taught that Christ is present in every celebration of the Eucharist. Christ gathers all of time into himself.
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The Gospel according to Winnie the Pooh
Holy Communion is the Lord’s way of saying that we need never be apart from him in our lives. He will always be there for us. As Pooh puts it, “If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart, I’ll stay there forever.”
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If Jeff Bezos wants to be ‘disruptive’, he should listen to biblical prophets
Entrepreneurs like Jeff Bezos talk about being “innovators” and “disrupters,” but really they are not—not in truly world-shaking ways. Imagine if they announced to the world: We are doubling the wages of our warehouse workers, increasing benefits. We are becoming, for God’s sake, a cooperative.
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Christ calls all of us to discipleship. Are we listening?
The Twelve were servants of Jesus’ mission. Now, after the resurrection, they have become Jesus’ friends.
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How do you listen to the voice of Christ?
This Sunday’s Gospel calls us to create that quiet place in the midst of the world’s distractions,
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On Good Friday, we do not celebrate the Eucharist. But Christ is still with us.
The church has a single focus today—the death of Christ—but her Christ still lives, still suffers in her members and still feeds her with his flesh. We pause in time. Christ does not.