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    Produce Good Fruit as Evidence of Your Repentance

    December 6, 2019

    Put on the Armor of Light

    November 27, 2019

    Long Live Christ the King!

    November 21, 2019

    We Must Prepare for the Coming of the Lord

    November 15, 2019

    What Is It like Being a Priest These Days?

    November 8, 2019

    A Word of Thanksgiving

    October 31, 2019

    The Prayer of the Lowly Pierces the Clouds

    October 23, 2019

    Love is a Battlefield

    October 17, 2019

    The Lord Has Revealed to the Nations

    October 11, 2019

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    Lay Down Our Lives for Our Faith

    September 13, 2018

    Dear sisters and brothers in Christ Jesus,

     

    “Whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and that of the gospel will save it.”

     

    When was the last time we were asked to lay down our lives for our faith?  When were we last asked to pit our Christian way of life against the ways of the world and take a stand?  Is it too easy to be a Christian, or too hard?  If being a Christian does not involve a personal Cross for each of us, are we doing it wrong?

     

    Our faith makes demands of us.  Belonging to the Church means sacrificing for Her.  We give of our gifts because we recognize them as gifts from the God who suffered greatly for us, was rejected, and was killed for our salvation.  The gifts we receive by living in relationship with Jesus are unimaginably great and manifold, yet these gifts demand a generous response.  We are called to take up our Cross in gratitude, not as a condition for receiving gifts, for they were freely given to us, but in thanksgiving to and imitation of Jesus.  Ours is not a comfortable faith but a sacrificial way of life in imitation of the Lamb of God.

     

    In our generosity to those in need we find the true joy of being instruments of God’s grace for others.  In professing and defending our faith in the public square we find the joy of standing in the place of Christ the Victim.  In taking up our crosses we find the fulfilment of that ancient hymn which proclaims: “Ave, Crux, spes unica!” Hail, O Cross, our only hope!

     

    Peace in Christ,

    Father Matthew Kuhn

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