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Called Not to Be Served but to Serve
(OSV News) – Pope Francis’ most recent encounter with mortality has captured the world’s attention. As of this writing, he remains in the hospital fighting double pneumonia with a “reserved” […]
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Like Christ, We Must Reject Satan’s Temptations This Lent
First Sunday of Lent The Book of Deuteronomy provides the first reading for this First Sunday of Lent. Deuteronomy recalls the flight of the Hebrews from Egypt, where they had […]
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Listening as Loving: Beyond ‘Good Job’
I am a compliment-er by nature. Giving sincere, spontaneous compliments feels as comfortable to me as remarking on the weather – and brings me more joy. In high school, friends […]
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A Random Guy Walks into a Bar
(OSV NEWS) – So, a random guy walks into a bar. No, this isn’t the beginning of a joke. For me, it’s a Lenten meditation. A friend of mine tends […]
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Vocations and Evangelization: Approaching a Diocesan Synod
I had the privilege of participating as an elected delegate in the two sessions of the Synod of Bishops on synodality in Rome. At the forefront of our conversations during those […]
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Lent: We Must Work to Conform Ourselves to Christ
Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time The Book of Sirach is the source of the first reading. Sirach does not appear in the King James Version of the Bible – the translation […]
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Family Is Where We Learn to Serve the Least Among Us
(OSV News) – Ask any parent who launched their child only to have them return home – or encouraged them through rehab only to watch them relapse. Ask any adult […]
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Reviving Monasticism
(OSV News) – Praying for vocations usually means praying for more priests. That’s a good and necessary effort, of course, because without priests, there is no Eucharist. But there’s another […]
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Look to the Skies
(OSV News) – One evening, after dinner at a conference in California, their stomachs filled with good food and better wine, a group of mathematicians and physicists went for a […]
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In Preparing for Lent, Aim to Strengthen Rejection of Sin
Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time The First Book of Samuel supplies the first reading this weekend. Originally, this book and its companion, the Second Book of Samuel, were combined in […]
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The Acceptable Time
Not to lay a guilt trip on you, but those good intentions with which you began 2025, how are you doing with them? Are you continuing to work out at […]
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A Eucharistic Word: Embodied
At a recent Sunday Mass, our curious kindergartener leaned over to me and asked why we trace a small cross on our forehead, lips, and heart as the Gospel is […]