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A Beautiful Gift — Of Tending Sheep and Watching Stars
In revealing the incarnation to shepherds and star watchers, we are given the sharp contrast of God’s love and joy against the madness of kings.
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Love From the Beginning — a Gift of Grace and Truth
The prologue to John reminds us of the eternal nature of God and the particular joy of the Incarnation gives us everlasting comfort and joy.
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All Of Us — the Revolutionary Spirit of Christmas
In the Christmas story, we are invited to see our world from the other side, from the way God longs us to live with others in it.
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Trust — the Love of God, Hope of the World
In the person of Joseph, God trusts in a human to trust in the mission, to raise the Messiah, to be a beacon of hope to the world.
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Persevere — How to Rejoice in the Prophetic Promise of Jesus
It was the promise that brought the crowds into the wilderness. It isn’t an obsessive attachment to certainty that unites us with true joy.
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To Be Free We Must Give Up on Violence
The prophetic voices of Isaiah and John the Baptist reveal the limits of our obsession with power against the boundless purifying love of Jesus.
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Giving in Love — Jesus’s Alternative to Fear
As tempests swirl and hatred flows around us, Jesus reminds us that we already know the way to live, the way to be is to love generously.
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Modern Apocalypse — the Crucifixion and redeeming love
Seeing the cross at the end of the liturgical year is an apocalyptic vision. It reveals empire’s commitment to power and God’s to love.