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“Father” - with this word I express my certainty that someone is there who hears me, who never leaves me alone, who is always present.  I express my certainty that God, despite the infinite difference between him and he, is such that I can speak to him, may even address him familiarly as “thou” [German du]. 

His greatness does not overwhelm me, does not reject me as insignificant and unimportant.  Certainly I am subject to him as a child is subject to his father, yet there is such a fundamental similarity and likeness between him and me, yes, I am so important to him, I belong so closely to him, that I can rightly address him as “Father”.  My being born is not a mistake, then, but a grace.  It is good to live even though I do not always perceive it.  I am wanted; not a child of chance or necessity, but of choice and freedom.  Therefore I shall also have a purpose in life; there will always be a meaning for me, a task designed just for me; there is a conception of me that I can seek and find and fulfill. 

When the school of life becomes unbearably hard, when I would like to cry out as Job did, as the psalmist did - then I can transform this cry into the word “Father” and the cry will gradually become a word, a reminder to trust, because from the Father’s perspective it is clear that my distress, yes, my agony, is part of the greater love for which I give thanks.

From: Saarland Radio Broadcast  

21  Again he said to them, “I go away, and you will seek me and die in your sin; where I am going, you cannot come.” 
22  Then said the Jews, “Will he kill himself, since he says, `Where I am going, you cannot come’?”  Read more

26  In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth,  Read more

 Jeffrey Schwehm  March 25, 2007

I grew up among Jehovah’s Witnesses and we never referred to Jesus’ death as the “Lord’s Passion.”  I can remember hearing the parents of my Christian friends talk about attending a “Passion Play” in Eureka Springs, Arkansas and wondering what kind of play they were describing.  I soon realized they were talking about a play that re-enacted the death of Jesus Christ and I wondered how such a terrible event could possibly be referred to as “The Passion”.

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Elizabeth Foss March 25, 2007

O Lord and Ruler of Life, take from me the spirit of idleness, despair, cupidity, and empty talking. Yea, O Lord grant that I may see my own sins and not judge my brother. For thou art blessed forever and ever. Amen.

This ancient Lenten prayer has been posted around my house this year. I’ve found it to be a good one over the long haul. At first, I read it and thought it a nice prayer, easy to memorize and entirely usable for Lent. Then, it began to seep into me.

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I’m a little concerned for the future of the Church when I hear stories like this…

Recently, I received an e-mail from an e-quaintence asking if I had time to help him with an urgent problem. I responded as quickly as I could, and within an hour, my interlocutor had written back with his issue. His explanation was involved, revolving around his RCIA, the teacher thereof and some concerns about his pending baptism into the Faith.

It doesn’t surprise me that someone so close to receiving that unique absolution and the incredible graces that flow forth from it, would be having doubts. To me, as to most of my Catholic friends, the source of these doubts are clear. The Master of Lies uses every little thing he can to carry us away from the Truth.

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This weekend I went to visit my mom. Toward the end of my stay on Sunday, she decided to turn on the videotape of a wedding of one of our cousins from many years ago. I had never seen the videotape of that wedding. I actually always somewhat resented going to that wedding that occurred nineteen years ago, because I was not able to spend that summer in Yugoslavia like I had the previous two years, because it was in midsummer. I also did not feel that close to this cousin, and this wedding did not endear her anymore to me since I blamed her getting married for not allowing me the opportunity to spend another summer in Yugoslavia. Read more

1  but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. 
2  Early in the morning he came again to the temple; all the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them. 
3  The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst 
4  they said to him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. 
5  Now in the law Moses commanded us to stone such. What do you say about her?” 
6  This they said to test him, that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground. 
7  And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.” 
8  And once more he bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground. 
9  But when they heard it, they went away, one by one, beginning with the eldest, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him. 
10  Jesus looked up and said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” 
11  She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you; go, and do not sin again.” 

“Spiritual joy is a serenity of temper in the midst of changes of life, such as a mountain has when a storm breaks over it. To a man who has never rooted the soul in the Divine, every trouble exaggerates itself. He cannot put his full powers to any one thing, because he is troubled about many things.”
-Archbishop Fulton Sheen, Way to Happiness

40  When they heard these words, some of the people said, “This is really the prophet.”  Read more

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