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The COVID-19 quarantine in much of the world invited us to look twice at what we took for granted. We’ve mourned many losses and promised to appreciate blessings when they resumed.
During these last days of Lent the Church offers us Isaiah’s Servant Songs as meditations on the person and mission of Jesus.
The cross is before us now with its wordless challenge to love beyond death. Take some time this week to think about events in your own life that have given you an experience of Jesus’s command to pick up your cross and follow him.
Jesus knows what it is to suffer. His passion and death reveal to us that God can use anything–even the greatest evil and suffering–for a redemptive purpose.
Even after his conversion, Francis retains something of his antipathy for the Perugians, historical enemies of Assisi and the faction that imprisoned him in his fighting days.
God will deliver his people from all their sins. The future that God has in mind for them (us) will come to them (us) by way of salvation in Christ.
When we focus on only the present moment, we’re losing sight of tomorrow. Rejoining the Paris Agreement is one step in the right direction.
Good Friday shows us that Christ died on the cross so we may have help carrying our own.
Francis understood that the way to imitate Jesus was by doing the good works that he had done, but there was also a mystical dimension to that identification.
Praying the rosary to find strength and support is common. This man prays the rosary for an end to racism.
