Millennial writer Marcus Mescher has a new post for the Dorothy Day Center for Faith & Justice. He writes: It’s so easy to get caught up thinking that my value lies in what I do, that others will only care for me if I perform a certain way or that my life is measured by… Read More A New Way of Seeing – and Being
Perhaps the most radical Christian belief is a belief in the equal and innate dignity and worth of every single person. It subverts every cultural, historical, and biological form of unjust prejudice. St. Paul articulates it clearly in saying, “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free person, there is not… Read More Lenten Reflection Series: That We All Might Be One
Milllennial co-founder Christopher Hale has a new article in Time. He writes: Silence at the cross of Jesus reveals itself in our nation, our communities, and our own hearts. Unlike the violence in the Middle East, these crosses are somewhat hidden, but they’re just as deadly. How many fall victim to the silent cross of… Read More Good Friday and the Modern Version of Jesus’ Cross
Today Christians around the world commemorate the death of Jesus on a Friday we so strangely call good. On his journey to the cross, Jesus experiences the fullness of human dysfunction: greed, jealousy, disloyalty, fear, abandonment, and death itself. We too experience this in our own flesh. Good Friday allows us to admit our own… Read More Lenten Reflection Series: The Redemptive Power of Christ and the Cross
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Millennial writer Mike Jordan Laskey has a new article at NCR. He writes: One night recently, Genevieve grabbed my hand and planted it on her abdomen. “Feel that?” she asked. I did. That first kick I felt was a clear sign that there was a life present that hadn’t been there just a few months… Read More MJL: A first-time expectant father during Holy Week
Tonight we begin the Triduum. Tonight we gather together in remembrance of Christ. Tonight we celebrate the institution of the Paschal Meal and join in the Supper of the Lamb. This meal is what the Church has called the “the source and summit of the Christian life” (c.f. Lumen Gentium, 11), so it is important… Read More Lenten Reflection Series: The Source and Summit of the Christian Life
