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Even in their fallen state men and women are the objects of God’s care. The garment of skins that God makes for them shows his continued concern.
To keep our bodies less defended, to live in our body right now, to be present to others in a cellular way, is also the work of healing of past hurts
The constant angst and heaviness of the pandemic has taken its toll in some way on each of us. May this prayer remind you of your humanity at a time when it is easy to be hard on yourself.
Evil is one of the mysteries of creation. We don’t understand all the implications of original sin, but we know that it has affected us and that we are all somehow sinners.
Powerlessness, the state of the shipwrecked, is an experience we all share anyway, if we are sincere
The creation narrative teaches that woman is of the same nature as man–of equal worth. Without her man is not fully himself.
The Gospel story of the healing of the leper is full of emotion. The man is invited to re-connect with the community, signaling the end of his isolation. The power at work in Jesus cannot be kept secret.
Eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil would have given humans a degree of power inappropriate for creatures.
God’s rest on the seventh day was not a matter of recuperating from the effort of creation. Rather it was a matter of taking pleasure in what he had accomplished.
St. Josephine Bakhita forgave her enslavers because she understood something they could not: Love will always conquer hatred.
