The 2024 elections will be an intervention into our current divisive way of seeing. It intervenes, and whether it is successful in removing what has been blocking the clarity of our vision is still unknown.
For us, addicts to the independence we think of as freedom, this month of meditating on Jesus as the Bread of Life has led us to hear Jesus question us: "Are you all in?"
Scripture for Life: Christ invites us to give him a dwelling place in our heart, mind and psyche. As we do so, we begin to allow all that we are and do to find its source and purpose in him.
Scripture for Life: This week's liturgy warns us that our expectations may be the greatest obstacle keeping us from knowing what God keeps offering us.
Scripture for Life: Jesus felt so deeply with the hungry people that he had to respond to them. In contrast to their woeful shepherds, he helped them get in touch with what their hearts desired.
In today's reading, the only task Jesus defined for the disciples was to drive out unclean spirits. Like them, our baptism commissions us to help others know the presence of God — in spite of situations and attitudes that obscure our vision of what God wants for our world.
It's not about fatigue or danger or age and endurance, writes Sr. Joan Chittister. It's about doing what we each need to do to help one another profit the whole country, the whole globe.
Scripture for Life: Jesus insists that God is reigning in the universe. He promises that we can get caught up in God's reigning if only we are open to do so.
Scripture for Life: Laying on of hands for healing occurs numerous times in the New Testament. Interpretations associate this gesture with the transfer of power for physical and spiritual wholeness. In light of quantum physics, this is better understood as the transference of energy.
"I find working with youth and refugees very rewarding because both groups are eager to engage in training and are willing to learn from their peers," writes Sr. Zipporah Ngoiri Waitathu of Uganda.
Scripture for Life: Today's Liturgy of the Word is a not-so-subtle call to live as a new creation. Instead of cowering in the storm, we can be people of the Resurrection — and discover how whirlwinds can blow us into deeper faith.
Scripture for Life: In Jesus' vision of God's reign, the measure of every action and relationship rests simply on how it fosters or impedes love and human thriving.
Rome's Dicastery for the Clergy recently upheld an unprecedented third merger appeal from St. Louis Catholics determined to defend their parish homes. Could this be a sign of change?
Scripture for Life: With each communion, we repeat our own "I do," to the invitation to strengthen our blood bond with one another and with God, to the invitation to share in the very life of God.
We are, it seems, not asking the right questions, argues Sr. Joan Chittister. Which means that we will therefore be without the answers we need to save the entire country.
Trusting the energy of the adventure, I encountered the Holy Spirit "renewing the face of the Earth," teaching us how to live sustainably with the billions of years of development found in soil, sea and stars.
Scripture for Life: The liturgy for the Vigil of Pentecost invites us into hope. Unlike the miracle of the tongues we will hear the next day, this is an invitation to dream.
