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Intimacy as a Path to God

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When Jesus gave Mary to St. John, the beloved disciple, to be his mother, Jesus gave Mary to be the mother of all disciples, but especially priests. As her beloved sons, we are to take Mary into our home, like St. John. Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI writes that when St. John took Mary into his Read More
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How to Grow in Holiness

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One summer during priestly formation, I was traveling in West Virginia with the Dominican preaching team there. Somehow I learned that my best friend’s father had died. The man had been very solicitous of me, a kind of surrogate for my own dead father. I wanted to attend his funeral in Chicago but, at the Read More
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Retrieve Holiness in Ordinary Duties

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The liturgical homily is tasked with a prophetic mission. It must interpret the Scriptures in light of sacred Tradition and show how such truth can be lived in the midst of everyday struggles and responsibilities. In this duty, every homilist must draw from the old and the new. He must be completely imbued with the Read More