Before the way of faith in Christ was available to us, we were placed under guard by the law. We were kept in protective custody, so to speak, until the way of faith was revealed. Let me put it another way. The law was our guardian until Christ came; it protected us until we could [...]
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A Meditation
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A Meditation
Posted in meditations, tagged Bible, christ, christian, christianity, church, faith, god, jesus, jesus christ, meditations, religion, spirituality, theology on January 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Do not quench the Spirit (1 Thessalonians 5:19) Take care, brothers and sisters, that none of you may have an evil, unbelieving heart that turn away from the living God. (Hebrews 3:12)
A Meditation
Posted in meditations, tagged Bible, christ, christian, christianity, church, faith, god, jesus, jesus christ, meditations, religion, spirituality, theology on December 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“Universal love and preference for the poor distinguish the message of the divine reign that both purifies human history and transcends it. Sin, which is the refusal to accept the message, brings Jesus to his death; the cross is the result of the resistance of those who refuse to accept the unmerited and demanding gift [...]
A Meditation
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And He said to humankind, truly the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding. (Job 28:28)
A Meditation
Posted in meditations, tagged Bible, christ, christian, christianity, church, faith, god, jesus, jesus christ, meditations, religion, spirituality, theology on September 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He said in reply, “The coming of the kingdom of God cannot be observed, and no one will announce, ‘Look, here it is,’or ‘There it is,’For behold, the kingdom of God is among you.” Luke 17:20-21
A Meditation
Posted in meditations, tagged Bible, christ, christian, christianity, church, faith, god, jesus, jesus christ, meditations, religion, spirituality, theology on August 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
God is honored by silence, not because we may say or know nothing about Him, but because we know that we are unable to comprehend Him. St. Thoma Aquinas
A Meditation
Posted in meditations, tagged Bible, christ, christian, christianity, church, faith, god, jesus, jesus christ, meditations, religion, spirituality, theology on July 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“Evolution helps us realize that God works through the messiness of creation and is less concerned with imposing design on processes than providing nature with opportunities to participate in its own creation.” Ilia Delio, The Emergent Christ
A Meditation
Posted in meditations, tagged Bible, christ, christian, christianity, church, faith, god, jesus, jesus christ, meditations, religion, spirituality, theology, thomas merton on June 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Action is not governed by moral reason but by political expediency and the demands of technology – translated into the simple abstract formulas of propaganda. These formulas have nothing to do with reasoned moral action, even though they may appeal to apparent moral values – they simply condition the mass of men to react in [...]
A Meditation – The Incarnate Word
Posted in meditations, tagged Bible, christ, christian, christianity, church, faith, god, jesus, jesus christ, meditations, religion, spirituality, theology on April 21, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Men are called to form a single body, within an extraordinary intimate divinization – and the Humanity of Jesus has been chosen to serve as the instrument for this unification in which the scattered cluster of all the fibers that make up the Universe is closely knit. In scripture, Christ appears to me as essentially [...]
A Meditation for Holy Thursday – The Lamb that was slain has delivered us from death and given us life
Posted in meditations, tagged christianity, church, faith, jesus, religion, theology on April 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
by St. Melito of Sardis a Bishop of Sardis and a prominent writer in the latter half of the second century. There was much proclaimed by the prophets about the mystery of the Passover: that mystery is Christ, and to him be glory for ever and ever. Amen. For the sake of suffering humanity he came [...]
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