"To forgive another person from the heart is an act of liberation. We set that person free from the negative bonds that exist between us. We say, "I no longer hold your offense...
Jesus began speaking in the synagogue, saying: “Today this Scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing.” And all spoke highly of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from...
"I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all lowliness and meekness, with patience, forbearing one another...
"Pope John XXIII, who was moved by God to summon the Council, used to say: 'What separates us as believers in Christ is much less than what unites us.' In this statement we...
"The unity of all divided humanity is the will of God. For this reason he sent his Son, so that by dying and rising for us he might bestow on us the Spirit...
"The full and visible Christian unity that we long for demands that we let ourselves be transformed and that we conform ever more perfectly to the image of Christ. The unity we pray...
Since many have undertaken to compile a narrative of the events that have been fulfilled among us, just as those who were eyewitnesses from the beginning and ministers of the word have handed...
"Dear brothers and sisters, division is a wound in the body of the Church of Christ. And we do not want this wound to remain open. Division is the work of the Father...
"We will search together, we will pray together, for the grace of unity. The unity that is budding among us is that unity which begins under the seal of the one Baptism we...
"One of the greatest dangers in the spiritual life is self-rejection. When we say, "If people really knew me, they wouldn't love me," we choose the road toward darkness. Often we are made...
“He by Whom man was made had nothing to gain by becoming Man; it was our gain that God was incarnate and dwelt among us, making all flesh His home by taking upon...
The Book of Exodus states: "God is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness." Coming from the OT, this is truly a different view of God, who often...
There was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Cana was about four miles from Nazareth. This is the first mentioned of Mary in John’s Gospel....
"You will never know real mercy for the failings of others until you know and realize that you have the same failings in your own soul. (St. Bernard of Clairvaux) During this Year...
"If we—all of us—accept the grace of Jesus Christ, he changes our heart and from sinners makes us saints. To become holy we do not need to turn our eyes away and look...
"When we have something on our mind and we want to ask God to forgive us, it is He who is waiting for us--to forgive us....Why? To embrace us. Nothing more. To say...
"Choices make the difference. Two people are in the same accident and severely wounded. They did not choose to be in the accident. It happened to them. But one of them chose to...
“If the Magi had come in search of an earthly King, they would have been disconcerted at finding that they had taken the trouble to come such a long way for nothing. Consequently...
