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Our Salvation Is God’s Greatest Work of Divine Mercy
Second Sunday of Easter The Acts of the Apostles supplies this weekend’s first reading. The first several chapters of Acts are fascinating because they so well depict the life of […]
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What Pope Francis Brought to the Church, and What He Leaves Behind
(OSV News) – Pope Francis, history’s first pope from the global south and a maverick who often delighted the world, died on Monday, April 21, after fighting pulmonary disease for […]
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The Simple Mission of Pope Francis: Inviting All to Encounter Christ
In a casual aside in an article two or three years into Pope Francis’ pontificate, and a year or two before I came to Our Sunday Visitor, I wrote that […]
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Christ Lives! All Should Share the Joy of the Empty Tomb
Feast of the Resurrection of the Lord The Church celebrates the Easter Vigil late in the evening on Holy Saturday. These readings are those read during Masses on Easter Sunday […]
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Alleluia at Easter and Beyond
In a night that is full of moving words and actions – indeed, even packed with the sacraments themselves – one moment from the Easter Vigil always stands out to […]
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Rain and Tears: The Lessons Learned in Lent
(OSV News) – The morning sky is gray and my favorite window for prayer is rain-streaked. Rain is welcome. We’ve experienced drought, and there are wildfires nearby. And yet, there’s […]
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Holy Week Shows Us the Depth of God’s Love for Us All
Palm Sunday The Church this weekend leads us to the climax of Lent, the observance of Holy Week, by offering the impressive liturgy of Palm Sunday. Recalling the triumphant entry […]
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‘Put No Trust in Princes’
(OSV News) – Scoring presidential administrations on some kind of Christian scale would seem to be an effort doomed to fail. Political agendas and actions rarely align easily with the […]
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Loving Sinners, Admonishing Sin
(OSV News) – Matthew, Zaccheus, Mary Magdalene, the woman at the well, the one caught in adultery, the sinful woman at the house of Simon the Pharisee, tax collectors, sinners, […]
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All That I Am
(OSV News) – The idea of union with God is, for most people, alternately attractive and terrifying. Attractive, because no matter how far we have fallen through the sin of […]
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Christ’s Mercy Awaits Those Who Strive to ‘Sin No More’
Fifth Sunday of Lent The Book of Isaiah supplies the first reading for this weekend in Lent. The reading is from the second part of Isaiah, written at a time […]
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Riding the Winds of Change
This is the story of a tree. An Eastern Cottonwood soaring 108 feet high, stretching its arms across three yards and anchoring the entire street. It was a defining feature […]