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SearchCOMMENTARY: A Paris hotel elevator gave St. Thérèse of Lisieux a lasting image of the Little Way — while, in a striking historical irony, Nietzsche, the philosopher of the ‘death of God,’ may have been staying in the same hotel.
The beauty that Dante sees shimmering upon the face of Beatrice is not some momentary bewitchment or spell, but the real truth about her.
COMMENTARY: A good shepherd must be prepared to die for his sheep.
COMMENTARY: The sanctuary lamp signifies something real — Christ truly present in the Holy Eucharist — and everything must change, because the wounds we carry need not be final.
COMMENTARY: During Holy Week, the Passion confronts each of us with a question no one can evade: Will we stand with Christ at the Cross — or turn away from its costly love?
If it is ‘certain that we shall not be here for long,’ as Blaise Pascal says, ‘and uncertain whether we shall be here even one hour,’ then what lies beyond death matters more than anything else.
Few of us are ready for heaven at once. Yet in the purifying gaze of Christ, God’s justice is revealed as divine mercy, and hope is not extinguished but fulfilled.
We tend to gallop through the Sacred Mysteries, forgetting the silence meant to gather the broken pieces of our lives before God. True stillness prepares the soul for mercy.
The saints, mystics and poets remind us that hope is not naïve optimism but the steady courage to love amid suffering and loss.
From Augustine to Catherine of Siena, the Christian tradition has seen pride as the root of all sin — the self exalting itself above the Creator.
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