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Living with Christ provides a wide variety of resources that help to nourish your daily spiritual life, putting the richness of the Christian spiritual tradition at your fingertips. Use these for your personal growth, for your reflection and prayer, and for sharing your faith with others in your family, household, or community. Visit online at www.LivingWithChrist.us.

Sunday Gospel Reflections

Sunday Gospel reflections: Be a faithful witness, even under pressure

Living with Christ Nov 23, 2018 0

In some ways, it’s hard not to feel sorry for Pilate. He really was caught between a rock and a hard place. On the one hand were the Jewish leaders who threatened to denounce him to the Roman authorities if he didn’t do what they wanted. On…

Sunday Gospel Reflections

Sunday Gospel reflections: Jesus comes to the rescue

Living with Christ Nov 16, 2018 0

We seem fascinated with calamities and disasters on a grand scale. We’ve only to look at recent box office successes at the movies. Attracted to these end-of-the-world plots, we are also deeply terrorized, praying these graphic images on…

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Sunday Gospel reflections: In your poverty, what do you still have?

Living with Christ Nov 9, 2018 0

A poor widow puts two small coins into the collection plate. Not much of an event, not much of a donation. However, Jesus immediately sees her real identity. Jesus loves her, in her poverty and in her radiance. Though neither materially…

Sunday Gospel Reflections

Sunday Gospel reflections: Fall in love with God!

Living with Christ Nov 2, 2018 0

The Great Commandment is at the heart of Sunday's readings. We hear it in Deuteronomy and then quoted by Jesus in Mark’s Gospel. This declaration of God’s unity and call to love God with all our being and to love our neighbor as ourself is…

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Gospel reflection: The saints all share one thing!

Living with Christ Oct 31, 2018 0

How many canonized saints do we have? With detailed research we could approximate an answer, but no matter! Today we remember all saints, an innumerable throng! The 144,000 ... 12 (the biblical number signifying completeness), squared — and…

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Sunday Gospel reflections: Jesus calls us out of blindness to discipleship

Living with Christ Oct 26, 2018 0

In Sunday's Gospel, we encounter Bartimaeus, the blind beggar, sitting at the side of the road as Jesus makes his way to Jerusalem. The road is crowded with people hoping to get close to Jesus. Bartimaeus, hearing that Jesus is passing by,…

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Sunday Gospel reflections: Make a commitment to serve

Living with Christ Oct 19, 2018 0

There was a time when Mission Sunday had an air of triumphalism: we are, after all, the largest Christian Church in the world, and we wish and work for nothing less than to bring the Gospel to the ends of the earth. Now the bigger picture…

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Sunday Gospel reflections: Will you give cheerfully?

Living with Christ Oct 12, 2018 0

I remember racing home from school with my report card, blazing with great marks. After careful scrutiny, my dad would say there was still room for improvement. Today’s Gospel brings that memory back. I know that my dad was very proud of…

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Sunday Gospel reflections: Keep the ideal of God’s plan in mind

Living with Christ Oct 5, 2018 0

Jesus regularly spoke of the ideals to which God calls us, rather than the accommodations we often make. His teaching on divorce is an example of that. In keeping with his usual approach, he challenged the Pharisees to aim for God’s…

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Sunday Gospel reflections: Stop, listen, and see a new reality

Living with Christ Sep 28, 2018 0

We have so many ways of judging people —by wealth, education, religion, gender, appearance. I’ve caught myself being surprised by a word of wisdom where I least expected it and in doing so recognize my own prejudices. Today’s readings…

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