
When You See Weeds Amid the Wheat, Remember Christ’s Words and Take Heart
In the end, just as mercy confounds might, so the capacity of wheat to eclipse the weeds is written into the very economy of salvation.
In the end, just as mercy confounds might, so the capacity of wheat to eclipse the weeds is written into the very economy of salvation.
In quite astonishing ways, angels have come among us to mediate God’s love and mercy.
What passing novelty of ours can match the eternal newness of Jesus?
More than 50 years ago, Joseph Ratzinger said that the life of the Church would be the outcome of her death, just as Easter Sunday was the outcome of Good Friday.
How are we ever to convince an indifferent world that Christ matters if he is never seen outside of a church?
The avoidance of sin, the attraction to God — such is the defining drama of the life of man
Here, it seems, is the flash point of the crisis we now face; indeed, we’ve been facing it for a very long time.
‘God was in love, but he could not keep the secret,’ said Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. ‘The telling of it was creation.’
The Mystery of Holy Saturday tells us is that God himself marched through the gate of death, releasing us from a state of bondage we were never created to have to endure.
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