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True Freedom and the Beautiful Life

Posted on July 3, 2022July 3, 2024 by Tony Crescio

On July 4th, our country once again celebrates the day of our independence. Independence Day is rightly commemorated because of the victory won for human dignity, as freedom was gained for a people to live life according to the dictates of consc...
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The Invitation to be Co-Creators with God

Posted on February 28, 2022March 30, 2022 by Vanessa Crescio

“The Lord God then took the man and settled him in the garden of Eden, to cultivate and care for it” (Genesis 2:15). In our culture, we place a premium on working hard, grinding it out, less rest, and more productivity. The underlying assumpt...
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An Enterprise of Mercy: Business That Serves Humanity

Posted on January 24, 2022March 1, 2022 by Vanessa Crescio

“All human activity, including business, can be an exercise in mercy, which is partaking in God’s love for mankind … Enterprises exist to serve” (Pope Francis, Nov. 17, 2016, to the Participants in the International Conference of the Chris...
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Cultivating and Sharing the Fruit of the Spirit

Posted on July 5, 2021May 19, 2023 by Vanessa Crescio

If we live in the Spirit, let us also follow the Spirit (Gal 5:25). In Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, He warns: “Beware of false prophets… by their fruits you will know them. Just so, every good tree bears good fruit, and a rotten tree bears bad...
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Thomas Merton on Integrity in the Search for the Self

Posted on December 20, 2020November 4, 2021 by Aidan McDermott

We hear from the Gospel for Gaudete Sunday Year B; the account of John the Baptist declaring his mission of salvation. In the Gospel, John the Baptist is interrogated by the chief priests and Levites. They ask John the Baptist who he i...
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Thomas Merton on the Unity of All Things in the Love of Christ

Posted on December 1, 2020November 4, 2021 by Aidan McDermott

A man cannot enter into the deepest center of himself and pass through that center into God, unless he is able to pass entirely out of himself and empty himself and give himself to other people in purity of a selfless love (New Seeds of Contempl...
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La luz de la Unidad

Posted on January 22, 2017October 31, 2021 by Tony Crescio

Tercero domingo de Tiempo Ordinario: 1-22-17 La Paz Sea Con Ustedes, El pasado fin de semana vimos que, aunque ya pasamos de la temporada Navideña y pasamos a la temporada de Tiempo Ordinario en el calendario litúrgico de la Iglesia, de ninguna...
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The Light of Unity

Posted on January 20, 2017October 31, 2021 by Tony Crescio

Third Sunday of Ordinary Time: 1-22-17 Peace be with You, Last weekend, we saw that though we have moved on from the Christmas Season and into the season of Ordinary Time on the Church’s liturgical calendar, we have by no means deviated from th...
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Viviendo la Respuesta del Cordero

Posted on January 14, 2017October 31, 2021 by Tony Crescio

II Domingo Ordinario: 1-15-17 La Paz Sea Con Ustedes, Habiendo celebrado la Epifanía el domingo pasado y el Bautismo del Señor el siguiente lunes, la Iglesia ha entrado en lo que llama Tiempo Ordinario en el calendario litúrgico. Sin embargo, ...
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Living out the Lamb’s Response

Posted on January 13, 2017October 31, 2021 by Tony Crescio

Second Sunday in Ordinary Time: 1-15-17 Peace be with You, Having celebrated Epiphany last Sunday and the Baptism of the Lord the following Monday, the Church has entered into what it calls Ordinary Time on the liturgical calendar. However, th...
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