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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 willing to live the Gospel

Living with Christ Jul 13, 2018 0

Summer fills our senses with sights, smells, and sounds that are particular to the season. We hear many sounds, but we really listen only to some, to those that mean something to us. Today’s readings focus our attention on listening — on…

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Sunday Gospel reflections: Our prophetic mission

Living with Christ Jul 6, 2018 0

I admire prophets when they challenge other people to change their attitudes and ways in face of a threatening reality. But when they invite me to see and live in a new way, I suddenly feel uncomfortable and resistant to their message.…

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Sunday Gospel reflections: Jesus’ transforming touch

Living with Christ Jun 29, 2018 0

Most of us can’t imagine circumstances that would prohibit us from entering our parish church. But a Jewish woman of Jesus’ time who was menstruating was prohibited by Jewish law from participating in communal prayer, in violation of the…

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Sunday Gospel Reflection: Discover God every day!

Living with Christ Jun 22, 2018 0

Nothing provides more excitement and joy than finding something new. Discoveries are made every day — new plants, medicines, heavenly bodies. In order to talk and marvel about these new discoveries, we give them names. One of the greatest…

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Sunday Gospel reflection: Simple acts help grow God’s kingdom

Living with Christ Jun 15, 2018 0

If a small farmer in Puerto Rico wants a fence that will last, a strong limb from a roble tree will do the job. The branch, once placed in a post hole along a fence line, will come alive in the moist tropical soil. New growth will soon…

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Sunday Gospel Reflection: Celebrate your renewed covenant with God

Living with Christ Jun 1, 2018 0

On this day of the feast of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ we usually focus on the Eucharist as being spiritual food provided to the faithful. We speak of the eucharistic table and meal, of eating the body of Christ, and of drinking…

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Sunday Gospel reflection: Witness to the reality of the Trinity

Living with Christ May 25, 2018 0

One of my most treasured possessions is a beautiful painting by an artist friend in which she attempts to depict the Trinity through the glowing light of three white candles. Generations of artists, writers, and scholars have struggled to…

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Sunday Gospel reflection: Share the Holy Spirit’s gifts!

Living with Christ May 18, 2018 0

The Holy Spirit is throwing a birthday party and we — all of Christ’s followers — are invited. It’s Pentecost, the Church’s birthday. Pentecost can be for us a time of renewal, of recreation, as we open up the birthday presents the Spirit…

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Sunday Gospel reflection: Proclaim the good news with the disciples!

Living with Christ May 11, 2018 0

Today’s readings bring us to the end of Jesus’ time with his disciples. We see the disciples going out and proclaiming the good news to the whole world, even though they are waiting for Jesus to return in glory. What is this good news that…

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Sunday Gospel reflection: Know and give the love of Christ

Living with Christ May 4, 2018 0

At first hearing, Jesus’ command to his friends sounds too easy to be true. His command is to love. But this is easier said than done, more complicated than the list-specific “shalts” and “shalt nots” of the Ten Commandments. If we try to…

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