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This past Sunday, on the Feast of Corpus Christi, our deacon concluded his homily with a simple enough lesson: “Love isn’t love until you give it away.” I spent the rest of my day trying to figure out why this line sounded so familiar. It had moved me deeply—I would go so far as to say that it galvanized me in the face of both everyday discontents and deeper wounds that I’d brought to the Lord that morning. Eventually, Google informed me that it comes most directly from the reprise of “Sixteen Going on Seventeen” from The Sound of Music, a film I have a fondness for but don’t know by heart.
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As Christians, we also recognize that Easter is not only a date on the calendar. It is God’s act of re-creation in Christ. The Church proclaims Easter as “the feast of the new creation,” where Jesus rises and draws all of us into new light and indestructible life.
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A record number of over 10,000 faithful are registered to participate in this tradition of honoring Christ and Our Lady with a 22-mile pilgrimage from the National Shrine of St. Joseph in De Pere, WI, to the National Shrine of Our Lady of Champion. The Shrine is the only approved Marian apparition site in the United States. We wrote about the apparition’s seer Adele Brice a few months back on this blog—her cause for canonization was recently opened by the Most Reverend David L. Ricken, Bishop of Green Bay. Servant of God Adele Brice devoted her life to traveling on foot as far as fifty miles through the Wisconsin wilderness to catechize families and children regardless of the weather, heeding the instructions to evangelize given to her by Our Lady of Champion.
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June 1979: Karol Wojtyła returns for the first time to his home country as Pope John Paul II. He is greeted by millions in Kraków, a city living under a communist regime that kept a tight hold on public religious expression. Tens of millions more hear him on the television and the radio.
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Before she became something of a “lost Catholic classic,” Görres was a woman who loved the Church enough to speak honestly about her.
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There are two main passages in the New Testament where Jesus teaches us how to pray: Matthew 6: 9-13 when he gives us the “Our Father,” a structured, vocal prayer, and the Agony in the Garden. In the example of the Agony in the Garden, one could say that Jesus does not need to pray in this way—He is God. He could have very well prayed or processed what would happen next in private without involving the disciples. Instead we have this demonstrative and ceremonious example of mental prayer, spoken aloud for our benefit.
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In these last few days of the Lenten season, the Gospel readings guide us through Christ’s final moments before His Passion and death. During this time, we are encouraged to recommit ourselves to fasting, prayer, and almsgiving as a way of drawing nearer to Jesus as His earthly ministry comes to a close.
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Lent has always been a kind of ascent. The Church, in her wisdom, gives us forty days, echoing Moses on the mountain, Elijah in the wilderness, and Christ in the desert. These are not accidental parallels. They remind us that transformation takes time and that encounter with God is often preceded by endurance.
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C.S. Lewis: A Friend of the Generations By Colleen Dean, Contributing Writer “Human history is the long, terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.” C.S. Lewis wrote these momentous words in his book Mere Christianity almost seventy-five years ago. But how relevant they remain today! Everywhere […]
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We did nothing but treat the priesthood the same way we treated every other good idea our son ever voiced about his future. When he first mentioned the priesthood at the age of six, we did the same thing we did when he brought up being a police officer, a firefighter, or an emergency medical technician. We said, “That would make us very proud.” Then we helped him explore his interests.
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