At different times in our lives, we all have our mountain-top experiences with God. When God asks us to do something difficult, what are we to do? Trust Him. When God places us in the midst of trying circumstances, what are we to do? Trust Him. When God promises us something that seems impossible, what are we to do? Trust Him. When God gives us crosses that seem too heavy for us to bear, what are we to do? Trust Him.
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While God declares everything He made to be “good,” human beings He declares to be “very good.” So when our hearts are corrupted by sin, we have even further to fall. But, just like Noah and the flood, God offers us a new beginning.
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Catholics ordinarily associate the concept of fasting with the Lenten season. The only two required days of fasting in the
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Jesus did not come to end suffering on this earth; he came to transform suffering into a means of salvation. He did this by suffering with us. We participate in his work of redemption when we join our suffering to his. This is what it means for us to take up our cross and follow him.
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Jesus tells Martha, “I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and whoever lives and believes in me shall never die” (Jn 11:25).
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