Posts in the "Becoming a Christian" category
Articles on the sacraments of Christian initiation (Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist) as well as on the process involved in preparing for those sacraments.
Doesn’t being A Christian mean somehow that we have met the risen Christ, that we live now not just for him, but with Him?
Every Easter season we read the passage of Luke’s Gospel about two disciples on their way to Emmaus, a town outside Jerusalem. This Gospel account is about a journey that often […]
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A comment on the parable of the pharisee and the publican (Lc 18, 9-14)
Part of the reflections I offer have been adapted from a text by Fr. Luis de Moya, a paraplegic priest who lives in Pamplona, Spain. In 1991 he fell asleep at the wheel and was left paralyzed from the neck down. […]
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Have you ever wondered why some children seem to have been born neat, while others leave a tornado in their wake? Why are some people always upbeat and optimistic, their glass “half full,” while others seem to be enveloped in a black cloud, their glass always “half empty”? For some, no passing thought goes unexpressed, […]
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