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Posts tagged with "Father John Bayer"

Challenging verses in Bible promise wisdom, peace Columnists

Challenging verses in Bible promise wisdom, peace

Thursday, October 1, 2015067 The Bible contains some dense and difficult sentences. For that reason, sometimes they wash over us like the final seconds of a radio commercial. But unlike the final seconds of a commercial, which often serve only to disclose the disadvantages of the advertised product, challenging verses in the Bible promise wisdom and peace to those...
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A treasure of the Old Testament

The Book of Job is a treasure of the Old Testament. A salutary reminder of the limits of human wisdom, it dramatizes some of the most stirring questions of existence: Why do the innocent suffer and the unjust prosper? Why does God often appear absent from our world? Do we have any way to stand before him?
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Be an ‘explicit witness to the saving love of the Lord’

The Joy of the Gospel (Evangelii Gaudium), that rousing and programmatic Apostolic Exhortation of Pope Francis published on Nov. 24, 2013, is a rather enkindling piece of writing.
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From love to prayer

I often ask myself about prayer. Where does a genuine desire to converse with God come from? What does it mean when the formal elements of prayer – the words or gestures of the Mass, Scripture or the traditional prayers we memorize – do not fit our interior dispositions? How does one stop thinking of God like Santa Claus, setting...
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Father John Bayer: A Word to Enkindle

By Father John Bayer Special to The Texas Catholic In the first installment of “A Word to Enkindle,” my confrere Father Thomas offered a reflection on the first part of the title: A Word. He noted that Christian faith is distinguished by the confidence that in the beginning was the Word (John 1:1); that is to say, our attitude...
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