[sg_popup id=”1″ event=”hover”][/sg_popup] What happens when you dare to allow God to challenge a lifelong “packaged” belief? You grow. There is no other way. First my father wound and Martin Luther’s writings, and now, how the familiar tabernacle and Bible brought me to the Church. Our next series, After This Our Exile, Making Sense of […]
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[sg_popup id=”1″ event=”hover”][/sg_popup] What happens when you dare to search beneath the surface? Here’s the story of how Jesus used the unlikely combination of Martin Luther, Protestantism, and a father wound to change me from a zealous Southern Baptist into a passionate Catholic. Early Church writings, the Ante Nicene Fathers. Image: https://unsplash.com/@heytowner
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“A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on. Evil can be undone, but it cannot ‘develop’ into good. Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound, bit by bit, ‘with backward mutters
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Nothing but things essential for us are revealed to us about the Mother of God: the fact that she was wed to the Holy Spirit and bore Christ into the world. Our crowning joy is that she did this as a lay person and through the ordinary daily life that we all live; through
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Every sorrow is forgotten in that rest at the feet of Jesus, and the soul confesses that one single instant of that rest were not too dearly bought by the work and sufferings of a whole lifetime, for it is a pure gift of love and mercy. ~ French Mystic Mathilde Boutle Text Hebrews
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Rest is not idleness. Indeed, restlessness is the torment of idle people. It is not relaxation. Relaxation should never be necessary, because the nervous tension which makes it so should never be present. Rest, far from being relaxation, is a culmination, a fullness of gathered peace, like the fullness and stillness of waters gathered
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We are not social workers. We are trying to be contemplatives in the heart the world. We have chosen to be carriers of God’s love. If the words of Jesus are true, ‘I was hungry, I was sick, I was naked, I was homeless, and you did it to me’ (Matthew 25:40), then we are
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God becomes especially visible in His mercy; He Himself makes it incarnate and personifies it. So then, what can I count on? My own merits? No, my merit is God’s mercy. I am by no means lacking merits as long as He is rich in mercy. If the mercies of the Lord are manifold, I too
Is “faith alone” enough for salvation, or faith + works of mercy? Jesus is clear. The Bible is clear, and no mental or theological gymnastics are necessary: “Nothing counts but faith working in mercy” (Gal 5:6). Corporal works of mercy, those material needs, are: To feed the hungry; To give drink to the thirsty; To
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Ever wonder why God redeems mankind but not the fallen angels? “Man is the only creature on earth that God has willed for its own sake.” It was for this end, God’s love and mercy, that he was created, and this is the fundamental reason for his dignity (CCC 356). The corporal works of mercy:
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