COMING CLOSER TO CHRIST: My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways. Why does God think differently? Because he wants us to have interior peace and to trust. When we…

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COMING CLOSER TO CHRIST: “How often must I forgive…?” Peter knew, as we all do, that forgiveness can be difficult, very difficult. In those days, the law prescribed threefold forgiveness, so Peter was being…

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COMING CLOSER TO CHRIST: “So my soul is yearning for you, my God “The deep desires of our hearts are insatiable. We yearn for peace, we yearn for joy, we yearn for fulfillment, we…

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COMING CLOSER TO CHRIST:Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German Lutheran pastor executed by the Nazis, wrote eloquently about the cost of discipleship: “Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living…

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COMING CLOSER TO CHRIST: Who do you say that I am? There may be lots of opinions on who Jesus is or who he was, but today’s readings remind us that the most important…

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COMING CLOSER TO CHRIST:The heart of God can be moved, because God is a person, not a force. The Canaanite woman touched his heart because she had what Christ’s heart most yearns for: love,…

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COMING CLOSER TO CHRIST:St. Augustine once wrote: “If I try by myself to swim across the ocean of this world, the waves will certainly engulf me. In order to survive I must climb aboard…

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COMING CLOSER TO CHRIST: St Paul’s Letter to the Romans contains some of the most beautiful and glorious that he ever wrote: “Who will separate us from the love of Christ?”. He claims that…

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COMING CLOSER TO CHRIST:“We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose” – Romans 8:28 All things? This biblical phrase should give…

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COMING CLOSER TO CHRIST:Today we hear about the parables of the Kingdom. Jesus came precisely to establish a Kingdom and taught us to pray every day for the coming of this Kingdom: “Thy Kingdom…

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