Tag Archive for ‘death’
Yes!
When meditating on one of the final prayers of Jesus on the cross- “My God, my God, why have your forsaken me”; if pursued with diligence, can be transforming in how ones relationship with God is looked upon and also perhaps, how this is shared with others. For Christians, Jesus is an actual revelation of [...]
Reality and Existence
The man who lives in division is not a person but on an “individual.” I have what you have not. I am what you are not. I have taken what you have failed to take and I have seized what you could never get. Therefore you suffer and I am happy, you are despised and [...]
Advent and grief (a talk)
When I think of the concept of longing and then mixed it in with the experience of grief, I always get the feeling, or perhaps the picture, of a deep, dark and cold ocean, a place of feeling alone and isolated…. for what was once a bright inner relationship with another, is now empty and [...]
Sacrament of the Sick: We enter into the suffering of Jesus Christ
By Christopher M. Riggs Don’t wait until the anesthesiologist is ready to put the mask on you before you think about the Sacrament of the Sick, says Fr. John Hay. He urges everyone to seek an anointing before they are admitted to a hospital. “It is a sacrament given to help us bear the suffering [...]
The Church is waiting at the tomb and weeps
The last day of Holy Week: a fruitful stillness before the breathtaking action of the night. Perhaps only the greatest Russian writers have succeeded in painting it as it is, a pause, a last moment of waiting, made holy by the Lord’s rest in the tomb. The Church is waiting at the tomb and weeps. [...]
The Three Days of Passion Begin with the Breaking of the Bread
From the moment when he broke his body for his disciples and gave it to his apostle three days are numbered during which he was counted among the dead, like Adam. Although Adam lived for many years after having eaten the fruit of the tree, he was still numbered among the dead for having broken [...]
Love the Lord your God
“You shall love the Lord your God with your whole heart, your whole soul and your whole strength.” It seems to me that the love of the heart relates to a certain warmth of affection, the love of the soul to energy or judgement of reason, and the love of strength can refer to constancy [...]
Bishop Lori addresses the fear and ‘scandal’ of death
Phoenix, Ariz., Aug 6, 2009 / 02:00 pm (CNA).- The Supreme Chaplain for the Knights of Columbus, Bishop William Lori, spoke to the Knights during their memorial Mass for deceased Knights and loved ones about the natural fear of death and what lies beyond this life. On the Feast of the Lord’s Transfiguration, the Bishop [...]
Abbot Placid’s Homily at Fr. Raymond’s Mass of Christian Burial
Mass of Christian Burial for Father Raymond Geyer, O.S.B. July 29, 2009 We have come together today to give praise and thanks to God for our dear brother, Father Raymond, who served God faithfully as a professed monk of this abbey for sixty-six years, and served the church tirelessly in his priestly ministry for over [...]
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