Pride isn’t the answer to our fears. Humility is. If you lack humility, pray for God to gird your life with love.
Scripture
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Soul Satisfaction
There is a reality to which God has called us that is not dependent upon our goods but on the preparation of our souls.
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Gospel: the Lord of all
It is in the acting out of God’s love for each creature that we show whom we serve.
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What the ascension has to say about the value of life
“So Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time.”
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What happens to our loves when we die?
Relationships are not erased by eternity. To the contrary, resurrected life redeems, restores and renews, our earthly relationships.
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Gospel: Love one another
“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another”
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Why do we pray to a God that allows the evil of the Holocaust?
If God does not exist, we waste our time, confessing our sins. If God does exist, our understanding of evil and our role in it is so small, so limited as to be worthy of contempt. But that’s not who God is.
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I left seminary because I thought I’d be an unhappy priest. God knew better.
Give yourself to the Lord, embrace your vocation. Joy will creep up and tap you on the shoulder.
Posted inFaith, The Living Word
How we read Scripture can help or hinder efforts toward gender equality
Barbara E. Reid on using Scripture to further gender equality
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Souls at War: An interview with the Iraq veteran and writer Phil Klay
Phil Klay won the National Book Award for fiction in 2014 for his collection of short stories, Redeployment. Writing in The New York Times, Dexter Filkins called it “the best thing written so far on what the war did to people’s souls.” A veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, Mr. Klay s