Tag: Forgiveness
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60-Second Sermon: 34th Sunday in OT
“True Power is not found in sneering, belittling, or dehumanizing; it’s found in Love.”
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Liturgical reading and the Rule of Benedict
One of the most important patterns of liturgical prayer is the periodic return to certain texts and actions—for example, the slow turning of the three-year lectionary cycle, or the genuflections and signs of the cross that mark our crossing the threshold between sacred and ordinary space and time. At the heart of these patterns is…
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Eucharist and Reconciliation
Jerry Galipeau reflects on “one of the most challenging aspects of Eucharist.”
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E.J. Dionne on 9/11, forgiveness, and the lectionary
By sheer chance — or, perhaps, Providence — two readings at Roman Catholic Masses on this day of commemoration for the victims of an evil act focus on forgiveness.
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Asking for Forgiveness
How do we ask for forgiveness authentically? What is needed for the sound of our asking to ring true, and deeply so? (I remember a spectacularly naïve request for forgiveness I received a few years ago, and I still cringe in pain). One thing I do know: being able to say, straightforwardly, the words “forgive…