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October 27, 2025

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Embrace Your Creativity

October 27, 2025

We all have been made in the image of a creative God, and we mirror that divine creativity in millions of ways. Let’s pray today to find creative expressions to nourish our souls.

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Road Tripping with the Almighty

October 27, 2025
My mind goes to this quote from Pope Francis: “Let us learn to keep silence before him, as we meditate upon the Gospel. If we are to know the Lord, we must go to him. Listen to him in silence before the Tabernacle and approach him ...
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Lakota riders arrive at the government building where they will meet Brad Upton, descendant of the commander of the Wounded Knee massacre on the Cheyenne River reservation in Eagle Butte, S.D., Nov. 6, 2019. Bishop Scott E. Bullock of Rapid City, S.D., and the state's Jesuits, have condemned Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's decision to retain the Medal of Honor for the U.S. soldiers that massacred 300 Lakota people at Wounded Knee in 1890. (OSV News photo/Stephanie Keith, Reuters)

Bishop, Jesuits reject Hegseth decision to honor soldiers who massacred Lakota

October 27, 2025
A South Dakota bishop and a Jesuit community in that state have countered a recent decision by the nation’s top defense official to retain awards for soldiers who killed hundreds of Indigenous civilians in a late 19th-century attack.
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Is ‘Offering It Up’ Still Valid?

October 27, 2025
I have trouble dealing with the concept of God accepting pain or illness as payment for some kind of wrongdoing. Jesus did it, but he is God. Is my friend correct? Am I?
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