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YAAASS!!!!! Hold On Help Is On The Way When youre down and
YAAASS!!!!! Hold On Help Is On The Way When youre down and in despair Dont be uneasy because hell be there Say dont you worry, no dont you fret T...

What sweeter music can we bring Than a carol, for to sing The
What sweeter music can we bring Than a carol, for to sing The birth of this our heavenly King? Awake the voice! Awake the string! When children woul...

Advent Day 22 - The New Eve In our Gospel for this fourth
Advent Day 22 - The New Eve In our Gospel for this fourth Sunday of Advent, we turn to the beautiful and familiar story of the Annunciation. The ange...

Boundless Hope St. Thomas teaches us that “man can never
Boundless Hope St. Thomas teaches us that “man can never love God as much as He should be loved; neither can he believe and hope in Him as much as...

If God invites the soul, by means of aridity, to a more simple and
If God invites the soul, by means of aridity, to a more simple and more profound form of prayer, it would be absurd to try to compel it to continue in...

Good Friday - Why Focus on the Cross? Its somewhat Pollyannish
Good Friday - Why Focus on the Cross? Its somewhat Pollyannish to say, Christianity is just about the Resurrection, and not the Cross. To say that is...

Lent Day 41 - Prayer and Action The fruit of prayer in the
Lent Day 41 - Prayer and Action The fruit of prayer in the Biblical tradition is action on behalf of the world. We are, essentially, a mission religi...

Lent Day 40 - The Revolutionary Message of Palm Sunday The
Lent Day 40 - The Revolutionary Message of Palm Sunday The texts that Christians typically read on Palm Sunday have become so familiar that we probab...

Lent Day 33 - Do Not Be Afraid The fear of death is like a
Lent Day 33 - Do Not Be Afraid The fear of death is like a cloud, a terrible shadow that falls over human life and experience. All of our proximate f...

Lent Day 11 - St. Thomas More and the Theo-drama The late Swiss
Lent Day 11 - St. Thomas More and the Theo-drama The late Swiss theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar, whom I mentioned yesterday, often spoke of the the...