Foundational Love
Great religion seeks utter awareness and full consciousness, so that we can, in fact, receive all. Everything belongs and everything can be received.
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A Prayer for Peace
“Mary gave a human face to the eternal Word, so that all of us can contemplate him.” — Pope Francis On this New Year’s Day, think of the faces in your life that bring you peace and joy. Say a ...
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God Gives the Growth
Holy people are always ready to show creation’s inner connections. Knowing such people draws us closer to God, whose goodness was revealed through the life of Francis of Assisi. We may be tempted to think that Francis lived at a ...
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We Cannot Earn Gifts
Pope Francis reminds us that God’s attitude toward us is far more one of mercy than of judgment. Forgiveness and generosity are the hallmarks of the divine. The psalms tell us that God puts behind himself all our sins. Gifts, ...
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We Live in the World, Not in a Bubble
The Holy Family were refugees from a corrupt political situation and an unstable ruler. No matter how much Matthew focuses on the way this flight into another country fulfilled passages in the Hebrew Scriptures, the fact is they were fleeing ...
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The Promise of the Christ Child
At our own birth, the child of Christmas is born in us. He is our spiritual potential. But we have to let that birth find its fulfillment in a life that rises above the ordinary. You might say that we ...
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Imagine the Manger Under the Stars
Christmas honors what is possible in this world: the birth of a creature who can transform the entire universe by the power of his imagination and his vision for a better world. If we could evolve to the point of ...
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