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[…] existed a marked peacefulness in their countenances. Their father had returned home. His presence now caused what felt jumbled and out of place in their hearts and world to be rightly ordered again. In this week’s gospel passage, Jesus gives His disciples (and us) a glimpse of what to expect when He returns at […]
[…] who have yet to encounter Jesus Christ's love: to break open the Scriptures, receive Him in the breaking of the bread, and share Him with this broken world. With you on the broken road, Laura Food for thought or journaling… How can you become bread to a soul that hungers for God? Jesus, You […]
[…] Father Riccardo, “is the enemy. The devil is not a myth. He is very personal. His goal is to degrade, defeat, and destroy you. That’s the bad news!” But, like Father Riccardo animatedly told us, there’s lifesaving news too! In 1 Peter 1:12 we are told about the “good news” preached “through the Holy […]
[…] are and why you were created. First, when you feel like you stick out like a sore thumb, remember that you don't feel at home in this world because you were created for another one. C.S. Lewis famously said, “If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only […]
[…] friends in the first place? I bet you have. I bet there is room for healing and forgiveness in this area of your life, and the good news is that God is ready and waiting to do something new. The topic of friendship has been at the forefront of my mind over these months […]
[…] am very comfortable doing. He is asking for my whole living, to give up the goods of this life that never satisfy and the vanities of the world that lead to emptiness. He wants me to shed worldly things that feed a false identity in exchange for clothing myself in everlasting beauty. He wants […]
[…] set out to destroy Jesus. I want to say, “Isn’t that crazy?" Then I look at our world and think, “hmmm…not so much.” I don’t watch much news, but I hear enough, and it appears that what motivated the scribes to kill Jesus thousands of years ago is happening today. We are terrified to […]
[…] leave church at the end of Mass. My family joins the rest of the congregation, filing out of the pews and down the long aisle where the world waits on the other side of the double doors. I’m content just to stay where I am. I also have moments before the Blessed Sacrament in […]
[…] than middle schoolers. These tweens come to our meetings with defensive walls and false masks that they have constructed as a result of living in our broken world. They keep these securely in place until they feel accepted, loved, and free to be themselves. And once that happens, floodgates open, and they are laughing, […]
[…] to coma and even death. Thus, when Jesus says, “you are the salt of the earth” (Matthew 5:13), He informs us of our unique role in the world while simultaneously warning us of what happens when we do not embrace it. To be the salt of the earth means that each of us is […]