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Living, or partly living?
Throughout the play, “Murder in the Cathedral,” the women of Canterbury, bearing critical, often emotionally wrenching witness to the looming tragedy they feel forced to bear and declare, repeat a portentous motif about how people are “living and partly living.”
Renewing the face of the earth
Most all of us want a world where there is clean water, abundant and accessible, wholesome food and shelter that is safe and secure. For everyone.
A pandemic we can do something about
Mother Teresa of Calcutta believed that loneliness, often accompanied by despair and hopelessness, was the virulent affliction in the West. Yes, she thought of loneliness as a virus.
Jesus in our midst
Patience and watchful waiting are an essential component of our growing in faith and trust in God. Not just in Advent, of course, but that’s one good reason for an Advent before Christmas.
The face of God
Christmas becomes a time to allow Jesus to be born again in our hearts, to re-present him to the world in and through us.
Advent giving
Listening to one soul in need may be the greatest gift one can bring to another.
No denying reality
There is something about being hit with very personal, biological red flags that cannot be mine alone to manage, delegate, tweak or outsource. “This is your life” (or death) suddenly hit home: YOU’VE GOT CANCER!
THANKSGIVING: THE CATHOLIC THING
Bishop's column: Every human being likes to be thanked. Sometimes we even deserve it. God loves being thanked, too — and ALWAYS deserves it. Why is this so?
Our young people want to know Jesus now
“Jesus must have been a very happy man to be around. He was always attracting children. And children don’t follow a cranky person.”
Giving thanks is a way to evangelize
Gratitude is the most personal, powerful and perfect prayer; in fact, the word “prayer” in this sentence is almost superfluous.
Taking God seriously
Matthew Kelly calls it “The Biggest Lie in the History of Christianity” — which is also the title of his book on the subject. He subtitles it with an appeal to our all-too-common experience: “How Modern Culture is Robbing Billions of People of Happiness.”
A chance to grow
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it.” This adage, attributed to Einstein, but probably a paraphrase of similar remarks made by many others, may serve as a reminder to us all as we begin our journey toward the XVI Ordinary Genera Assembly of Bishops in October 2023 …
To rise up, go deep
The way up is down deep, into the rich humanity of the poorest of the poor.
Hope of the Poor
My heart is full of joy and gratitude to God for a mission in the slums of Mexico City.
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