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The Christ we welcome in the Eucharist urges us to let go of hurts and offences and lift the burden from anyone who has caused us pain....
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How often do we look at someone’s life at the level of soul and say: He’s found it! She’s there! That’s what a full life looks like! ...
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Jesus held his hands wide open in the desert. The basis of the temptations he underwent there was the enticement to close his hands, to grasp his divinity, to tighten his grip. Instead, he held them open....
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To receive the peace of Christ, is to allow ourselves to be disarmed from our positions, ideologies, fears, self-protection, hard heartedness, desire for revenge, self-and-other judgement....
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During his Wednesday General Audience, Pope Leo XIV reflects on Vatican II's Dogmatic Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, 'Sacrosanctum Concilium,' underscoring that "the liturgy sustains the faithful" and that every Eucharistic Celebration becomes "a true epiphany of the Church in prayer."...
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Just as the origins of the Christian message and community are traced back to Jesus' own preaching ministry, which is shaped by his storytelling, the origins of the Franciscan movement are similarly narrative in character....
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Jesus ascended into Heaven. He has brought ‘flesh’ into the realm where we thought only spirits and angels could dwell—into the realm where God lives. From now on, we all ‘belong there’....
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There is something so essential about the gospel this weekend that two thousand years later we still contemplate it to learn both about Christ and more so to learn about ourselves as responders to the divine love which enables our salvation. ...
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Right throughout the Easter season, we use these words of the psalmist to give thanks and praise God for the supreme gift of his Son's resurrection. Easter means God has triumphed over the forces of darkness and evil....