
Do I Really Need Another Lent?
We are made to languish in this vale of tears, so why not fast?
We are made to languish in this vale of tears, so why not fast?
Those who refuse joy, who will neither love nor be loved by another, make themselves first cousins to despair.
If God is love, then human love can work only to the extent it allows itself to be filled with God, overflowing with his love.
What exactly is the job of love? It is nothing less than the effort to promote the real and permanent good of another person.
Those who deny the truth should not imagine their actions immune to judgment.
“For all the gods of the nations are idols, but the LORD made the heavens.” (Psalm 96)
This week, we are especially reminded that the Maker of the universe “became his own making” — and that Christ and his saints were born in order to die.
Amid the silence of the stars, God truly comes into our world — an event that renders everything different.
If to do evil is permitted only in a world without God, it follows that to do good becomes possible only in a world where there is God.
If we reject the truth that sex is about babies, then it is not likely that we shall survive, or that we deserve to.
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