Doubt Can Be Beneficial
Pat McCloskey, OFM
February 5, 2025
The word ponder means “to weigh.” Do people need to weigh something about which they are absolutely certain? Does that describe the Virgin Mary’s faith at every point of her life? Isn’t it more likely that at the foot of Jesus’ cross, ...
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The Greatness of God's Love
Ilia Delio, OSF
January 5, 2020
God bends low so that God can meet us exactly where we, finite, fragile, created human beings, creatures and all living things, are. God bends low because we are small, limited, frail, confused, bewildered, chaotic and sometimes just plain infantile. ...
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Look to the Stars
Diane M. Houdek
January 4, 2020
I love going out in the yard in the winter to look at the stars. The clear, cold air makes them seem brighter. Different stars are visible in the winter than at other times of the year. As the constellations ...
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At Home or on the Road, God Is with Us
Diane M. Houdek
January 3, 2020
No matter how much we try to extend the holiday with traveling and vacation time and a last party or two, there comes a time when we need to return to our daily activities and responsibilities. School starts up again, ...
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Human and Divine
Diane M. Houdek
January 2, 2020
Knowing that God not only knows but experienced what it was to be a human being, composed of blood and flesh and bone, limited by all the things that limit us, should give us patience with our weakness and joy ...
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Run to Mary
Marge Steinhage Fenelon
December 31, 2019
Mary cares for our souls in a way that no human mother ever could—even the most wonderful, loving one! It is that burning charity that motivates her to work tirelessly for our salvation. She wants our salvation so desperately that ...
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Jesus Is Forever
Diane M. Houdek
December 30, 2019
We’re approaching the end of the Christmas season. Soon we will be back to the ordinary routines of our life. But if we have celebrated the feast of the incarnation well, our lives will be changed. We don’t know what ...
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