It is important to note that even in the midst of calamity and disaster, Job did not sin. There is no way he could have understood what was going on in his life at the time (as the next 40 chapters will vividly illustrate) and still he trusts in God. Job seems to know that […]

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We must learn to fight the battles that are worth fighting — and this includes all fights that involve the truth — rather than give our energy to causes that will not endure or even fail. The Gospel is always worth fighting for and so Paul encourages Timothy to give his all in its service. […]

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Amos 6:1a, 4-71 Thus says the LORD the God of hosts: Woe to the complacent in Zion! 4 Lying upon beds of ivory, stretched comfortably on their couches, they eat lambs taken from the flock, and calves from the stall! 5 Improvising to the music of the harp, like David, they devise their own accompaniment. […]

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Jesus learned obedience through suffering. Mary, the woman of sorrow at the foot of the cross, retains her faith even with the death of her Son. Even our own suffering can draw us closer to God if we join it with Jesus’ and continue to entrust our lives into His hands. We may not understand […]

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Luke 7:1-101 When Jesus had finished all his words to the people, he entered Capernaum. 2 A centurion there had a slave who was ill and about to die, and he was valuable to him. 3 When he heard about Jesus, he sent elders of the Jews to him, asking him to come and save […]

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Christian community is built around the actions of people and not just ideas. As such we have to demonstrate our willingness to live by a particular set of ideals. This requires that we look deeply into the meaning of our actions and what they say to others about who we are, what we think and […]

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One of the roles of a leader is to protect the Christian community. Unfortunately, this may require having to ask a person to leave the community in order to protect the body from that person’s errant ways. This is always a serious business and never taken lightly. However, those in leadership must be willing to […]

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The Ascension marks the end of Jesus’ physical mission on earth. He returns to His Father in order to send us the Holy Spirit. For the next week we reflect upon the absence of Jesus in the life of the community of the faithful and try to get in touch with their feelings of loss. […]

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Stewardship of God’s gifts is also a crucial aspect of a faithful disciple’s life. If we are not faithful to using well the small things God gives us, we will never be entrusted with the bigger gifts. One of the saddest realities in life is to watch a person not living up to his potential […]

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Yesterday the mother; today the son. St. Augustine in many ways is a pagan Paul. He gave his life over to the wisdom of men for 30 or so years before finding faith. And yet God used his great learning to shape Church theology even to this day. If Pope John Paul II was a […]

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