“With Eyes of Mercy”
We have a big year coming up. Starting this fall, the Catholic Church will be celebrating a “jubilee” year focused in particular on the mercy of God. Jubilee years find…
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Be the Hero: doing what you can
From time to time we all see or hear about professional athletes being put into critical situations for their team: being put on the ice for sudden death overtime in…
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What does it mean to be free?
Because I spend a lot of time trying explain my faith to teenagers, many of them have no problem turning around and asking me questions about this or that teaching…
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There’s a Little Judas in all of us…
Picture yourself: a follower of Jesus during the first century. One called – audibly – by name to follow Him, one selected to be among His inner circle, one of…
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And Jesus Wept…
I wrote this in December 2013 after a former student in one of my schools was tragically killed in a car accident. May it bring hope in some of your…
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Too Hard!
When I read or hear the story of the feeding of the five thousand (which we heard proclaimed at Mass this summer), I’m often struck by how quickly the tide…
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Committing to Prayer
I recently heard a theologian suggest that eternity (Heaven) depends to a certain degree on how willing you are to pray: if you can’t carve a small space out for…
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Doing Battle on the Front Lines Part II: Know Your Enemies
War in the twenty-first century is significantly different than it was in the past. Not only has technology evolved but so has the field of battle. Where in the…
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Doing Battle on the Front Lines
While re-watching Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy a few months ago, I was particularly struck by the battle scene in the opening sequence. In that battle, the ‘last alliance of…
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I do believe, help my unbelief!
When we read the Gospels, we come across all sorts of people who go to Jesus looking for something: things like healing, a fair judgment for some way in which…