A Homily for the Fourth Sunday of Easter, by Terrance Klein
Spirituality
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Becoming a grandparent has helped me to see God’s creation through the eyes of a child
From the moment of her birth, my granddaughter has retaught me one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit that we learn at Confirmation: a sense of wonder and awe.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: The invitation to everyday holiness found in spiritual memoirs
In ‘Our Hearts Are Restless: The Art of Spiritual Memoir,’ Richard Lischer explores classics of “an intimate genre, perhaps the most intimate.”
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The real priest who inspired ’The Pope’s Exorcist’—and the Jesuit who brought it to market
In “The Pope’s Exorcist,” the story of Fr. Gabriele Amorth, known as “the James Bond of exorcists,” is told with Russell Crowe as the main figure. It appears in theatres Friday, April 14.
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Pope Francis: You don’t spread the Gospel from your computer
“One does not proclaim the Gospel standing still, locked in an office, at one’s desk or at one’s computer, arguing like ‘keyboard warriors’ and replacing the creativity of proclamation with copy-and-paste ideas,” the pope said.
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‘It is finished’: The meaning behind Jesus’ last words on the cross
A Homily for Good Friday, by Terrance Klein
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A Prayer for Pope Francis During his Hospitalization
As Francis faces this new illness, help the doctors and nurses who care for him, help him to bear any pain with grace and help him to heal quickly.
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Pope Francis: An elegant Catholic is not a holy Catholic
In his weekly general audience, Pope Francis reveals how Paul of Tarsus was the exemplary witness to what passion for the Gospel means, and he has the zeal to preach about Jesus and help others.
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Finding God in the belly of a whale
In the whale, in whatever trials we might face, God is still there. We can’t learn the lesson later; we must learn to know God in the dark when our other helps are removed.
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The spirituality of sacristans: What this often overlooked role has to teach the church
Our task as sacristans is to attend to small acts of care in a world that is too often inattentive and careless.