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Every Sunday, during the Creed, Catholics profess their belief in the “communion of saints.” For most of us, most of the time, this conjures an image of disembodied souls, worlds away from our own concerns. Yet, that communion includes not only the Church Triumphant of the saints in heaven, and the Church Penitent in purgatory, […]
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Readings (Year A): Wisdom 12:13, 16–19Psalm 86:5–6, 9–10, 15–16Romans 8:26–27Matthew 13:24–43 Reflection: God is more patient than we are The hardest part of loving another person is resisting the urge to fix them. A middle school teacher once shared a story about two boys in her class. One was every teacher’s dream: respectful, hardworking, and […]
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I did a double take when Al Pacino’s face filled the projector screen during my undergraduate class on sacraments. Our professor, a Benedictine priest, wanted to show us the famous baptism scene from The Godfather (1972) to illustrate a point about the theology of the sacrament. “The reason this scene works is because it gets […]
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On a rainy summer evening in 1997, I joined about 40,000 other men for the opening night of a Christian men’s conference that held the same ethos as a football game. The speakers claimed our masculine voices had been quiet for too long. They insisted the Bible teaches that silent men are weak, and strong […]
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Imagine yourself in the first century, living somewhere in the Roman Empire. As a devotee of the local gods and goddesses, you are intrigued by the message of Paul of Tarsus and the women and men who are his coworkers and coleaders. Your life has been transformed in ways you never could have imagined, simply […]
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