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Heavenly Messengers
When was the last time an “angel of the Lord” visited you? Were you afraid? Perhaps a bit skeptical? Like Zechariah before Gabriel, or George Bailey before the jovial Clarence…
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Can We Lift Another’s Burden?
Here in Chicago, I regularly visit the Catholic Worker House on the city’s north Side. Recently, I’ve had the privilege to befriend James, a gentleman in his mid-fifties who moved…
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The Inbreaking of Light
In her book Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard writes of a girl, blind from birth, who gains sight after an operation. She is shown a tree for the first…
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A Change in Priorities
Whenever I encounter this Gospel passage, I find myself wondering: Really? Did these fishermen immediately walk away from their livelihood and families to follow Jesus? Could I possibly do similarly…
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A Creative Expression of Love
You are created in the dynamic image of God. To create is to express our lives as being made in the image of God, for our God is a creative…
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Bearing the Weight
The advice columnist Ann Landers once famously wrote that “hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.” Anyone who has struggled to forgive a serious…
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Worthy of Love
One of the most memorable classes I took as an undergraduate English major was titled “Graham Greene: A Novelist Looks at Faith,” taught by the Jesuit theologian Father Robert Kennedy.…
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Searching for Holiness
Today is Halloween. In many places, this holiday is an opportunity to dress up as something scary and threatening. Then, when those frightening figures knock on our doors, we open…
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Love that Flourishes
As we learn more about the universe and view videos and photos of its wide expanse, we continue to be amazed by the realization that we are all interconnected and…
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Calling Each by Name
There are 900,000 kinds of insects; 10,000 species of birds; 73,000 tree species—our Creator loves variety! Consider any first-grade class. One student asks for more math while another plays by…
