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To clasp one’s hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world. - Karl Barth The effect of prayer is union...

Our faith in God who sent his Son to become God-with-us and who, with his Son, sent his Spirit to become God-within-us cannot be real withou...

On a CitiHope International relief mission in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, after Hurricane Katrina, I was approached with a request: On our way h...

To bless in the biblical sense means to ask for God's blessing, we're not asking for more of what we could get ourselves. We're ...

One thing children certainly accomplish, and that is that they love and wonder at the people and the universe around them. They live in the ...

Why is it so hard for us to believe that God's love really is unconditional and that we should imitate God's love not only for other...

The Church is an object of faith. In the Apostles' Creed we pray: "I believe in God, the Father, ... in Jesus Christ, his only Son ...

It is the rare person who, looking back over his life and seeing what he has done to it, hasn't sighed for a chance to redeem what he ha...

No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good. A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation mean...

One day, a young minister who had not been at his new church very long decided it was the darkest, most cheerless church he had ever seen. E...

The Church is holy and sinful, spotless and tainted. The Church is the bride of Christ, who washed her in cleansing water and took her to hi...

Disappointment and loss are a part of every life. Many times we can put them behind us and get on with the rest of our lives. But not everyt...

The Church is the people of God. The Latin word for "church," ecclesia, comes from the Greek ek, which means "out," and ...

The two main sacraments, baptism and the Eucharist, are the spiritual pillars of the Church. They are not simply instruments by which the Ch...

Where is Jesus today? Jesus is where those who believe in him and express that belief in baptism and the Eucharist become one body. As long ...

My child, flee from all evil and from everything resembling it. Do not get angry, for anger leads to murder. My child, do not grumble, for t...

One rainy afternoon I was driving along one of the main streets of town, taking those extra precautions necessary when the roads are wet and...

As we gather around the Eucharistic table and make the death and resurrection of Jesus our own by sharing in the "bread of life" a...

Simplicity - poverty for the sake of Christ - was like an article of faith with us. How could we, who wanted to share the suffering of the m...

In and through the celebration of the Eucharist, Jesus' death and resurrection become a reality for us here and now. As we eat and drink...