Peter was free because he was set free. At the heart of Peter’s story is not his own gifts and abilities; at the center is the encounter with Christ that changed his life. He experienced a love that healed him…
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Meeting Jesus Changes Us At the end of today’s Gospel, we hear that the wise men “returned to their own country by a different way.” On the surface, they took a “different way” in order to avoid Herod’s jealous wrath,…
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Welcome God’s love into your home! I think that’s a pretty simple summary of today’s feast of the Holy Family. God the Son really entered our human family. In Nazareth, he learned to walk and speak, to labor and to…
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The True Meaning of Christmas: Encountering Jesus in the Eucharist I had been an avid reader of books for many years before I discovered that many people start at the end. I was unfamiliar with the practice of reading the…
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Jesus Christ reveals to us the truth about our identity. In today’s Gospel, crowds come to John the Baptist asking who he is. He answers by describing who he is in relation to Jesus Christ. “I am not Elijah...I am…
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Preparing a Place for Jesus As we prepare for the celebration of Christmas, let us remember to make a place for Jesus in our homes. The Gospel passage of the Second Sunday in Advent always recalls the preaching of St.…
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God made you to be happy with him forever. And God made everything else to help you find your way to that happiness. Learning how to use everything this world offers as a way to grow in friendship with God is…
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Do you recognize your longing for God? Longing expresses a deep desire that isn’t like the itch to go buy something or have a snack. It is a desire for happiness in a relationship. Sometimes longing is misdirected to shopping…
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Offer It Up. I’m sure you’ve heard these words a thousand times. “Offer it up.” It’s sort of a shorthand way of saying, “stop your complaining,” “get over it,” “suck it up, buttercup.” But of course that’s not the first…
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Why do we honor the Saints? If they are in heaven, what difference does it make to them to have a special feast day or prayers or devotions on earth? Bernard of Clairvaux gave a famous sermon that started with…
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