As we stand on the threshold of the feast, we begin to realize that the radiance of God can shine forth through faithfulness in the ordinary events of life.
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Reading the Signs of the Times
If these are the signs of our times, how can we say that our redemption is at hand?
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Choose Life!
The readings challenge us: “I have set before you reputation and wisdom, comfort and eternal life.” What will we choose?
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Bread From Heaven
We are no longer content to live with full bellies but empty minds.
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The People Who Walk Upside Down
The Third Sunday of Advent invites us into a world of reversals.
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Staying Out of Prison
Jesus’ parable states that all church order is subject to the law of mercy and forgiveness.
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Costly Grace
“Denying one’s self” is more profound than daily acts of “mortification.” It means displacing one’s self from the center of our consciousness while looking to the true self embodied by Jesus’ teaching.
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Going My Way
Today’s Gospel and Luke’s whole theology of the Spirit, which will unfold in Acts, is a chronicle of the way God can walk with us in surprising, often unknown ways, reversing our path from fear and disappointment to make of us bearers of the power of the risen one.
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The Way of the Shepherd
The shepherd imagery is deeply rooted in biblical thought.