Death Is a New Beginning
Jim Van Vurst, OFM
May 18, 2025
Our faith has a way of answering questions and helping us understand that their deaths and those of all our loved ones are not signs of an ending, but rather a new beginning for them.
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Tradition Is about Community
Richard Rohr, OFM
May 27, 2020
To live with healthy Tradition is not an individual experience—it is a communal one. Perhaps this is why Catholicism emphasizes liturgy so much. It is the one thing that pulls us into a communal space where we can ask different ...
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Live Outside the Systems of Power
Richard Rohr, OFM
May 27, 2020
Jesus does not directly take on social reform. Instead, he preaches a life of simplicity and nonviolence that is simply outside the system of power, money, and control. More than directly fighting the system, he ignores it and builds an ...
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A Sense of Community
Richard Rohr, OFM
May 27, 2020
The hunger for meaning and the need for hope in this deconstructed society cannot be satisfied by merely private choices. Corporate evil can only be overcome by corporate good. For this reason, and many others, I’m very happy to see ...
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Prayer for Presence
Richard Rohr, OFM
May 27, 2020
Let us be present to the now. It’s all we have and it’s where God will always speak to us. The now holds everything, rejects nothing and, therefore, can receive God too. Help us, God, to be present to the ...
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Compassion and Dialogue
Richard Rohr, OFM
May 27, 2020
Compassion and dialogue are essentially vulnerable positions. If we are into control and predictability, we will seldom descend into the weakness of listening or the scariness of dialogue. We will not only be incapable of hearing others, but will also ...
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Extending Hospitality to All
Melanie Rigney
May 27, 2020
“Charity enters heaven when humility opens the door.” —St. María Natividad Venegas de la Torre
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