"WE WANTED TO EXIST": J.G. HAMANN ON WHY CHRIST CREATES
“The God-Man, the Word revealed in flesh, God’s Son, who, from eternity, had chosen the mystery of His incarnation and redemption in...
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"KNOWLEDGE PUFFS UP": ORIGEN ON THE WORST OF SINS
"What sin then is greater than all the others? ... Haughtiness, pride, arrogance are the sin of the devil... The material of pride is...
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ADVENT IS A MODE OF BEING: ROBERT JENSON ON HOW JESUS IS PRESENT
“The analogy between Paul’s presence from a distance and the risen Jesus’ presence from a distance is not perfect; the kinds of distances...
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The God of the Clerics Does Not Exist: Karl Rahner on True/False Images of God
Think of the false images of God that are found everywhere and therefore also in us. It is all very odd. We human beings recognize the...
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"What I Find when I am Most Myself": Howard Thurman on Discerning the Will of God
The will of God is often thought of as something that comes into a man from the outside. It is regarded as something against which the...
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The Lord's Prayer is Not a Hymn: Karl Rahner on Daring to Ask God for Things
"[T]here is a prayer of petition which speaks to God and is not a mere exorcism of one's own heart, but boldly and explicitly ventures to...
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"He Merits Love": Hugh of St Victor on Learning the Loveliness of God
"The difference between the love of God and the love of the world is this: the love of this world seems sweet at the outset, but has a...
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How Jesus Defeats the Establishment: Ivan Illich on Holy Indifference to Money and Power
"Just before He started out on His public life, Jesus went to the desert. He fasted, and after 40 days he was hungry. At this point the...
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On the Ignorance of the Son
"It would seem there there was ignorance in Christ," St Thomas says (ST III.15.3), because ignorance is basic to what it means to be...
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The Brightness and Darkness of God: Joseph Ratzinger on Christ and Christology
"Let us return to the question about God and about Christ as the centerpiece of an introduction to the Christian faith. One thing has...
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A Prayer for Humility by Fr Alexander Men
Lord, have mercy! Christ, have mercy! Jesus, gentle and humble in heart, hear me and have mercy on me. Heavenly Father, God, have mercy...
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I Am the Lord’s Shepherd
A sermon for the Eighth Sunday after Pentecost There is a subtle shift in our Gospel today, subtle but telling. The apostles, returning...
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Weathering Storms and Stomaching Difficult People
A Guest Post by Julie Green A few months ago, one night at bedtime, for reasons I can’t explain—I typically stay clear of the Old...
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"Nothing Human Alien": Donald MacKinnon on the Sorry Cheapness of the Cross
There was nothing 'religious' in the crucifixion: it belongs to history, whether you see it as a miscarriage of justice, or as just...
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You Are All the Room Christ Needs
A Sermon for the Sixth Sunday after Pentecost †We know how Jesus' story ends. But it‘s easy to forget he met with rejection not only in...
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"Blessed is She Who Has Believed": Reflections on Mary as Prophet
The Mother of God is the glory of the world, a world glorified in God and of God, and in itself possessing and giving birth to God... In...
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Jesus Does Not Calm Every Storm
A Sermon for the Fourth Sunday after Pentecost Today's Gospel gives us a familiar story: When evening had come, Jesus said to his...
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Christ or Caesar: Nikolai Berdyaev on Worldly Politics and the Hope of the Kingdom of God
Render the things of Caesar unto Caesar, and the things of God unto God "Great temptation consists in the identification of Christianity...
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Living the Divine Life: Reflections on Preaching God as Trinity
* The doctrine of the Trinity is not mysterious. The doctrine simply concedes, as honestly and candidly as it can, the fact that God is...
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A City of Refuge and A Cup Rimmed with Honey: St Basil on the Psalms
"When, indeed, the Holy Spirit saw that the human race was guided only with difficulty toward virtue, and that, because of our...
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