Consoling Mother
Holly Schapker
May 3, 2024
I once found myself stuck in the middle of a labyrinth, feeling trapped in failed perfectionism. I realized that no matter how hard I tried, I could never earn God’s love. Mary needed to help me receive the mercy of ...
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Parable of the Two Criminals
Daniel P. Horan, OFM
March 27, 2024
Paradise, or the kingdom, is also a reality that is not off in some distant future, but is, as Jesus says, here “with me today.”
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God Suffered Out of Love
Daniel P. Horan, OFM
March 26, 2024
After Francis’ death, Bonaventure will talk about the “transformative power of love.” Love is what moved the heart and mind of the saint from Assisi, and it is love that is the greatest force for change and good in our ...
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The Joy and Suffering of Love
Daniel P. Horan, OFM
March 25, 2024
The love of Jesus Christ that leads to his willing embrace of the crucified earthly destiny that appeared before him is both a model for how we are called to love and a revelation of God’s self-offering of control out ...
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Control, Surrender, Loss
Daniel P. Horan, OFM
March 24, 2024
If love is the free surrender of one’s control, then suffering is the involuntary taking of that control away.
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Sinners Make the Best Contemplatives
Laurence Freeman, OSB
March 23, 2024
Jesus said he came for the sick, not the healthy. He dined with sinners, not church leaders. So who’s “special”?
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Poverty of Spirit
Ragan Sutterfield
March 22, 2024
I feel the grandeur of creation and my smallness in it. For a moment I have no worries, only the sense of God’s abiding grace in the world.
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