| Spirituality of the Readings
John Foley, SJ
First Things First
Maybe you are spending your life on what is of small value: what you will eat, what you will wear, how long you will live. These things do not last. They are too far down the scale of values.
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| In Exile
Ron Rolheiser
Secrets of the Kingdom
He couldn’t remember so clearly the first part of the game. He hadn’t scored. He remembered all the parents jumping and screaming every time there was a goal scored and they hadn’t jumped and screamed for him.
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| Glancing Thoughts
Eleonore Stump
No Worries
When things get bad enough for a person, he can think that God has abandoned him. And that really is the worst. That is the extrinsic lower limit on the scale of bad things that can happen to a person.
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| The Perspective of Justice
Gerald Darring
The Love Of God
God's love and justice are different from ours. The Gospel teaches us that in the just world of God, the sorrowing are consoled, the lowly inherit the land, the hungry have their fill, and the persecuted rejoice at being insulted and slandered.
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| Discussion Questions
Anne Osdieck
Fully Present
Pope Francis says that Jesus asked us to contemplate the lilies of the field and the birds. If every person and creature has something to say to us, what do you learn from the lilies and birds when you really look at them?
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