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U.S. life has “dramatically changed” due to the yearlong pandemic, and alongside it, racial injustices and political divisions have shaken the nation, yet there is “comfort in God’s promise,” the U.S. bishops’ Administrative Committee said in a March 9 pastoral message.
There’s nothing wrong with self-esteem, power, comfort, control, success, wealth, or amusement as long as they are secondary and subordinate to our relationship with God.
God guides our behavior by the needs of the poor. He leads us in prayer. But we don’t always pay heed to God’s guidance.
In Lent we examine our lives in order to restore our part of the baptismal covenant–our relationship with God in Christ.
In a new video, the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine reiterated that use of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine “can be used in good moral conscience.”
Azariah’s prayer is appropriate for us to recall in our season of Lenten repentance. We have no right to God’s care. We can only ask for God’s mercy.
How dramatic and alluring is Micah’s statement that “God, who delights in clemency, and will again have compassion on us.
In the Book of Micah the author first prays for the prosperity of the people. Then in a kind of litany of forgiveness, he speaks of the blessings that God offers to them.
The suffering of the just man is a theme that calls for our greater attention as we approach the weeks of the liturgy that deal with the sufferings and death of the just man, Jesus.
During Lent, we witness Jesus falling and his mother being there. Remember that Mary also sees how heavy your own cross can be.
