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Sooner or later, the heart of everybody’s spiritual problem is “What we do with our pain? Why is there evil? Why is there suffering?” Job begs God for an answer to this mystery, and he can’t get one. He only begins to trust when he no longer feels ignored, when he knows that God... Read More →

The final Sunday before Palm Sunday and the beginning of Holy Week orders our spirituality toward the coming death and resurrection and calls us into a more intense spiritual preparation for the paschal mystery (Luke 20:9-19; John 11:1-17; 12:20-33). In the ancient church, this... Read More →

We pay more attention to dying than to death. We’re more concerned to get over the act of dying than to overcome death. Socrates mastered the art of dying; Christ overcame death as the last enemy. There is a real difference between the two things; the one is within the scope of... Read More →

Rise up O sleeper, awake! Rise from the dead, for I am the life of the dead. Rise up, work of my hands, for you were created in my image. Rise, let us leave this place, for you are in me and I am in you. Together . . . we cannot be separated! [Adapted from an ancient Christian... Read More →

The seeds of Easter are already found in Christmas. If God can become flesh, incarnating in the material world, then resurrection is a natural conclusion. Nothing divine can die. Easter isn’t celebrating a one-time miracle as if it only happened in the body of Jesus and we’re all... Read More →