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When our words are kind and gentle, our spirits will be too. We will have fewer regrets and be more charitable and peaceful
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When our words are kind and gentle, our spirits will be too. We will have fewer regrets and be more charitable and peaceful

Blessed Onesimus was a runaway slave in the New Testament. Despite this distressing situation, he ultimately became known as a holy one in the early Church. It was St. Paul who gave Onesimus guidance and encouragement.

The promise of Easter doesn’t end on Easter Sunday. The promise of life is a constant that is shared with us every day, through the ways in which our faith interacts with our daily lives. Saint John Paul II reminds us, “We are an Easter People and Alleluia is our song!”

We tend to think the prophets were fortunetellers predicting the Christian future, but they were much more. They named the ever-present illusions and self-deceptions.

If winter is the time for stillness and introspection, spring is the season for awakening—for stretching our legs and exploring the world.

God is always the initiator, always good, always available, and the flow is always free.

The cross—a symbol that once meant shame has been remade into a sign of Christ’s glory. Take comfort in that truth today and find peace in it.

Our love and suffering as Christian disciples, like the Lord’s on the cross, does not happen in vain.

Yesterday, we mourned Christ’s death. Tomorrow, we will celebrate his Resurrection. Today, we pause somewhere in between.

Both Sts. Francis and Clare of Assisi recognized the importance of what happened at the cross as a model for Christian life.