
God Awaits
Kristina Santos
July 29, 2025
Our need to be both receivers and givers of mercy is the purpose of Christ’s presence among us.
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God Alone Is All We Need
Diane M. Houdek
December 22, 2019
Advent reminds us that the One who has come into the world and is always coming into our lives in new ways is the source of our salvation. We don’t need novelty and “magic bullet” solutions to our concerns. We ...
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Dark Days and Dark Moods
Thomas Moore
December 21, 2019
Dark days can mean dark moods. This natural turn of the seasons helps explain the timing of Christmas. It is the festival of light, the return of the sun and longer periods of daylight. It’s a time of renewal and ...
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A Celebration of Profound Change
Thomas Moore
December 19, 2019
People usually think of Christmas as a traditional and sentimental festival, but not as a celebration of the Jesus vision it commemorates: a philosophy of profound reform. The child lying in the manger would become perhaps the most radical of ...
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Take a Step Back
Diane M. Houdek
December 18, 2019
We are constantly surrounded by advertising in a growing variety of forms. Ads creep into nearly everything we do. And this ramps up even more during the weeks leading up to Christmas. Advent invites us to take a break from ...
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God Loves Us Where We Are
Ilia Delio, OSF
December 16, 2019
If God loves us where we are and comes to be with us humbly in the flesh, then we must admit that the humility of God is intertwined with the Incarnation. Incarnation we might say is God bending low to ...
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Wants and Needs
Diane M. Houdek
December 14, 2019
Somewhere in the course of a childhood or a lifetime, we learn to balance expectations and reality. It has much to do with learning the difference between wants and needs. We rarely do this perfectly in our everyday lives. It’s ...
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