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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 […]
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The Eloquent Ambiguity of ‘I Believe’
There is an eloquent ambiguity in the way in which the opening word of the Nicene Creed has come down to us. Our best evidence suggests that in the formula […]
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Even though the Pope Is Home, Don’t Stop Praying for Him
(OSV News) – The world rejoiced on Sunday, March 23, when Pope Francis was released from Gemelli Hospital in Rome after 38 days. God be praised, he seems to be […]
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Our Joy Comes from Knowing God Will Never Abandon Us
Fourth Sunday of Lent This weekend, the Church observes Laetare Sunday, the name being derived from the first word, in Latin, of the Entrance Antiphon. This word is “laetare,” or […]
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The Meaning of Lent
(OSV News) – Every Lent for more than 45 years, I have given up watching TV and have chosen a spiritual classic to read and meditate on instead. Through the […]
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Rejoice? In Lent?
We are well into the season of Lent, and I am reminded of this fact regularly as I mindlessly open a can of soda and begin to sip on it, […]