Living in the Kingdom
“Love conquers all things. The love of God defeated death and sin on the cross… One already begins to enter the kingdom in this life by taking up and accepting the cross the Lord offers to each of us. And through that cross of Christ we wil…
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During his apostolic ministry, roughly two decades after the Ascension of Christ, the St. Paul was compelled to write a letter to the Galatians that rebuked them for the false gospel they had adopted. After Paul had left them, certain men had infiltrated their congregation and convinced them that they, as Gentile Christians, needed to […]
Sir 3:17-18, 20, 28-29; Heb 12:18-19; 22-24; Lk 14:1,7-14 “All we need is pride! All we need is pride!” This jingle playing on radio recently caught my attention. I listened more closely to understand why we needed to be more proud. To my relief, it was a commercial for a detergent powder called Pride. There […]
It is striking, when reading about the saints in their own words, just how terrible an opinion they hold of themselves. But it makes sense: as sanctity grows, so too does the awareness of one’s own sinfulness. St. Gemma Galgani was a mystic visionary who died at the age of 25 in 1903. Her intimate […]
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