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Speaking Truth in Love: The Church’s Role in Guiding Hearts

The Church has a prophetic mission, to tell the truth to the world. This mission is not an easy one because it means pointing out the...

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The Spiritual Hunger of Our Time: Finding Fulfillment in Christ’s Embrace

Both our first reading from the Prophet Jeremiah, and the Responsorial Psalm text from Psalm 63 speak in visceral terms, terms felt at the...

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Understanding Jesus in Today’s World

Jesus asks this question of his apostles in today’s reading from St. Matthew’s Gospel. If the question was relevant in Jesus’ own...

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Breaking Barriers: God’s Invitation to All Peoples

God’s intent, throughout the sacred story of the scriptures, was that the One True God should be known to all the nations of the earth!...

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Finding God in Quiet Faith and Evangelization

In our search for faith, we often enough look for God in grand and large things. We look for signs “of biblical proportions,” like...

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The Power of Silence: How Lent Helps Us Hear God’s Voice

Pastoral Reflection There is an irony in the juxtaposition of the first reading and the gospel. Abraham, who thinks he must “give up”...

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Finding God in Every Transition: Lessons from the Epiphany and the Baptism of the Lord

Pastoral Reflection As we celebrate the Epiphany of the Lord today and the Baptism of the Lord tomorrow, we bring our Christmas season to a...

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Healing and Renewal: Embrace the Season of Lent

Pastoral Reflection A Message of Hope: Healing, Restoration, and Renewal In today’s first reading from the Book of Leviticus, we see a...

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Restoring Light: How the Church Can Lift the Burdened

Pastoral Reflection In the 1st reading for today we see that poor Job, who has suffered so many problems and deprivations, is tempted to...

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Welcoming All with Grace: A Call to Compassionate Ministry

Pastoral Reflection Notice that when Jesus encounters the man with the unclean spirit, he does not condemn the man so afflicted. Rather, he...

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