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I can be fearful and bound in my selfishness. By Your cross and Resurrection I have been set free. I will rise in hope to share self-giving love— treating others as I would be treated.

We are emotional beings. God made us that way. Although we each have different gifts that differentiate our intellectual and physical abilities, we tend to react to the world emotionally. As our creator, God uses these emotions to interact with us—He speaks to us in emotional terms. In the beatitudes, He promises comfort for our…

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I am burdened with sorrows. As You awakened the hearts of Your disciples on the road to Emmaus and they found You in the Breaking of the Bread, raise me to find joy in praise and thanksgiving to You.

When we read a novel, we can usually trust the author’s exposition. If the author wrote that a character is annoyed with a situation then the reader can trust that the character is annoyed. What is thought by a character are true thoughts and we can read minds through the words of the author. What…

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Todays Reflection

The Joyful Mysteries

The Joyful Mysteries open up to us the realization in time of the revelation of the salvation of God. Mary's assent to the will of God is the human fiat of the New Covenant... an act of trust undoing the failure of Eve. Jesus is conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary as the fulfillment of the protoevangelium of Genesis. He is the answer to the sorrows that have plagued humanity since our fall from grace. He comes to end our slavery to sin, lead us across the river of Baptism, and bring us home to paradise. He humbled Himself to be like us to raise us up to be like Him.

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