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Recess: a temporary withdrawal or cessation from the usual work or activity; a secluded or inner area or part. These contemplative studies are meant to provide you with an opportunity for recess, a chance to cease your usual activity and examine your inner self. A time to be... Read More →

Prayer for Palm Sunday Almighty and everliving God, in your tender love for the human race you sent your Son our Savior Jesus Christ to take upon him our nature, and to suffer death upon the cross, giving us the example of his great humility: Mercifully grant that we may walk in... Read More →

The apostle reaches this conclusion: “One died for all, therefore all died” (2 Corinthians 5:14). For Paul, Jesus is not simply one among many men. He is the Creator and Sustainer of all things. What becomes of him is not back-page, small-print news; it carries cosmic... Read More →

For Paul the resurrection was no metaphor; it was the power of God. And when he spoke of Jesus as raised from the dead, he meant Jesus alive and at large in the world not as some shimmering ideal of human goodness or the achieving power of hopeful thought but as the very power of... Read More →

When our Lord Jesus Christ tasted death for the sake of all, and even arose on the third day, he thus became “the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep” (1 Corinthians 15:20), and a root to those who are created anew by him for life, as a beginning of a new human nature... Read More →