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You have illuminated The end of the earth, O Christ, With the brightness of your presence, Giving joy to the world through your cross. So now, enlighten the hearts of your faithful With the light of the knowledge of God. Glory to your holy resurrection, Lord. We believe in a... Read More →

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 →

Psalm 90 A prayer of Moses: The man of God Rewritten by Jon Bannon Version One YOU ARE GOD, WE ARE DUST. WE QUICKLY PASS AND ARE GONE. IF ONLY WE KNEW. TEACH US. HAVE COMPASSION ON US. SATISFY US. MAKE US GLAD. SHOW US. ESTABLISH THE WORK OF [Y]OUR HANDS FOR US. YOU ARE OUR... 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 →