Renewing Our Hearts
Today, we’re talking about renewing our hearts, and two stories stand out in my mind…
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Have Mercy on Yourself, Because God Does
Our theme today is: Have mercy on yourself, because God does. For the past three weeks,…
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Change Our Words, Change Our Love
Let’s talk about the sins of cursing, profanity, and vulgarity. Most of us (not all,…
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Seeing Into the Future
Over the years, I’ve reminded you how God takes care of us in suffering, but…
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Defeating Spiritual Laziness
Here’s a list of the seven deadly sins: pride, avarice, lust, envy, gluttony, anger, and sloth. …
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Reaching Out to the Marginalized
In 2013, Vinicio Riva went to Rome and, during a large papal audience, reached out…
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The Fullness of Life
If you had a magical power to change the world, what would you do (Matthew Kelly, The…
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We Get to Choose Our Anxieties
Believe it or not, we choose some of our anxieties. That’s because some are based on…
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God’s Call is Clear
One time, when I was 24, I went to see my family doctor. In the waiting…
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Love, Suffering, Love
Love, suffering, love. This is the theme of today’s homily, and it indicates a…
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Begin Again With Equilibrium
Many of us struggle with highs and lows in our lives: When we’re high, we’re…
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Evangelization Helps Us Begin Again
There’s a popular YouTube channel about exercise and one of the videos is entitled,…
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Begin Again, By Going to the Heart
Anne was worried about her husband, Mark. Things were better after he met with a…
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Begin Again Through Trials
Today, we’re going to answer the question of why God allows spiritual desolation, something…
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Begin Again, Because God Begins Again
Merry Christmas! If we are suffering from any discouragement, God doesn’t want this. Discouragement is…
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Begin Again: More Blessings Are Coming
There are two things you can do to see God’s blessings in your…
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Begin Again: Go Out of Yourself
In 1965 Archbishop Sheen quoted Carl Jung, the famous psychiatrist, who stated that about…
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Begin Again
Because of the First Reading and because we’re now in Advent, the beginning…
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Envy
Some of you might have enjoyed the movie Parasite, a Korean film that…
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Think of Our Sins Before the Sins of Others
You may remember these two simple ideas from a year and a half…
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Warning
A while back, I called a 30-year old man who had been a young adult…
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Five Ways God Expands Our Horizons
The strictest order of monks in the Church is the Carthusians, semi-hermits who live in…
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Where’s Your Best Place to Pray?
[Watch Fr. Justin’s homily delivery here.] Would you spend 30 days here at this retreat…
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How to Ask for the Best Gifts
“At Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream…
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Three Ways to Receive Blessings
Why does it seem that Jesus blesses some people more than others? A similar question…
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Freedom in Accepting Our Bodies
Let’s talk about the challenge of not accepting our bodies. All of us have experiences of…
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Seeking the Truth
Last week, we talked about overcoming the fear of speaking the truth. Today, the theme…
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Losing the Fear of Speaking the Truth
Let’s talk about speaking the truth, and, at the end, do it in relation to…
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How Real is the Real Presence
There was once a Catholic CIA agent assigned as a courier of intelligence between Baghdad…
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Another Antidote to Taking Ourselves Too Seriously
Two weeks ago, one idea struck a chord with many of us: That we take…
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