
Roamin’ Catholic: Sacred Silence in Santo Stefano
‘We sat for a long time in Santo Stefano, long enough for a concrete sense of the passage of time to dissipate.’
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‘We sat for a long time in Santo Stefano, long enough for a concrete sense of the passage of time to dissipate.’

How respectfully St. Paul speaks with Athenians, “looking carefully” at their shrines. He credits their poets for expressing that we too are God’s offspring.

Somehow striking the rock twice constituted unfaithfulness by Moses and Aaron. In any case, this event marked the end of Moses’ leadership.

Journeying to holy places, like the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, is as much an inward journey as outward.

This week continues the Bread of Life discourse in which Jesus once again tells the disciples that he is the living bread that has come down from heaven.

We believe that in the Eucharist we celebrate each Sunday is the crucified and risen Jesus Christ himself, drawing us to himself.

Sometimes God’s demands of us and God’s gifts to us seem to be too much. But they’re still acts of God’s love for us and have to be dealt with accordingly.

‘Every step I took on the pilgrimage seemed to not only bring me closer to Francis and Clare, but also to my mom.’

God’s people are not always satisfied with the leadership he sends them, but the people’s leaders come from God and must be received accordingly.

‘If living with less, even temporarily, helped me to understand the values of St. Francis a bit better, then it’s an experience I’m happy to have had.’