Category: Faith
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Faith, not fatalism
“Add Christian hope, born of faith, to the inevitability of death and the entire horizon of human experience is changed. Christian hope does not prevent death. Christian hope does not even delay death. But because Christian hope is hope in eternal life, it changes completely the way we are able to live here and now.…
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Lead me to follow You in faith
Lord, lead me to follow You faithfully,To fall not into despair,Nor to become impatient and full of self-pityIn those times when You lead me in quiet and aloneness. But rather strengthen me to seek Your Will,To listen for Your call; Strengthen me to wait for You,To stand alert and ready to protect Your precious prayer…
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Impeachment anxiety
Thank You, Lord, for being here with me — waiting for me to be here, too — as I come to You. The chaos and cacophony of our time — so troubled, so troubling — so wearying, so worrisome — sends me into flurries of activity. As the storms rage around me, little blasts of…
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“Have faith, choose me,” said Our Father
Good Morning, Father. What a day yesterday! Thank You for Your loving discipline, Father. I intended to and wanted so much to attend Mass with You at noon. But I was waiting for a Fed Ex delivery and I didn’t want to miss the delivery guy. What to do? And, I chose wrong. I chose…
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My belated response to Melinda Henneberger
Melinda Henneberger wrote and published a column in the National Catholic Reporter back in December 5, 2018 on her reasons for leaving the Catholic Church. She (and many of us) felt a crisis of conscious over the McGarrick revelations and the unfolding knowledge of our church’s continuing sex abuse scandal and coverup. I shared her…
Walking With My Brother 