https://youtu.be/v2_YCrZ8YgU Faith is what compels us to live lives of honesty and integrity. Like Saint Paul, we live the gospel virtues of justice and mercy, of compassion and humility, not just when we pray or are at church, but when we cook dinner, study for finals, or make a tent, or whatever we do to […]

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https://youtu.be/RV257Vvpkts Everything in nature has a trademark: The stripes on a zebra, the grain of the wood, the markings on a dragonflies wings, and the brightness of a star. These are the fingerprints of God. Everything has its own stripes, speckles, spots, dapples, veins, or grain. No two caterpillars, no two stars, or no two […]

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https://youtu.be/CsZ5Xlh5wMc In his book Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life, Henri Nouwen writes this: “When we honestly ask ourselves which persons in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and […]

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https://youtu.be/QdczuzXXkw0 When we judge someone harshly… When we refuse to have anything to do with someone who does not live up to our standards… When we cut off a relationship because of some disagreement… We like to think we’re doing the right thing, that we’re being true to our beliefs, that we are honoring God […]

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https://youtu.be/8_VdwKBiabY Today’s gospel is taken from the 15th chapter of Saint John. It is Jesus’ parting words to His friends on the night before He died. Jesus is giving us a distillation of His three years of teaching, because He wants to be sure that we get it. Jesus reminds us that it all boils […]

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