Christ pours out the Spirit among his members to nourish, heal, and organize them in their mutual functions, to give them life, send them to bear witness, and associate them to his self-offering to the Father and to his intercession for the whole world (CCC 739).
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Posted by Rick Becker on May 20, 2018
https://onethousandwordsaweek.wordpress.com/2018/05/20/pentecost-in-action-st-cristobal-magallanes-1869-1927/
This ‘one language’…was an expression of the unity of the Church and through its dignified character elicited a profound sense of the Eucharistic Mystery.
~ Pope St. John Paul II
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Posted by Rick Becker on April 22, 2018
https://onethousandwordsaweek.wordpress.com/2018/04/22/latin-a-converts-romance-in-three-movements/
Posted by Rick Becker on April 15, 2018
https://onethousandwordsaweek.wordpress.com/2018/04/15/bridgebuilding-barriers-and-fatherhood-st-benezet-as-patron-for-dads/
You don’t grasp the beauty of the destruction of words.
~ George Orwell
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Posted by Rick Becker on March 13, 2018
https://onethousandwordsaweek.wordpress.com/2018/03/13/vsed-a-new-form-of-assisted-suicide/
The father-son paradigm is ageless….
This is truly the key for interpreting reality.
~ St. John Paul II
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Posted by Rick Becker on February 9, 2018
https://onethousandwordsaweek.wordpress.com/2018/02/09/keeping-the-showman-great-of-p-t-barnum-vows-and-fatherhood/
It is not enough to say to my God I love you, but my God, I love you here.
~ Mother Teresa
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Posted by Rick Becker on September 8, 2017
https://onethousandwordsaweek.wordpress.com/2017/09/08/love-the-ones-youre-with-first/
Posted by Rick Becker on August 24, 2017
https://onethousandwordsaweek.wordpress.com/2017/08/24/of-serbs-salvation-and-sunburns/
Posted by Rick Becker on April 27, 2017
https://onethousandwordsaweek.wordpress.com/2017/04/27/emmaus-eucharist-and-emma-thompson-the-hidden-mass-in-wit/
If Christ was not of the very substance of omnipotence,
if becomes relatively pointless to point to the paradox of his impotence.
~ G.K. Chesterton
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Posted by Rick Becker on April 2, 2017
https://onethousandwordsaweek.wordpress.com/2017/04/02/nailed-the-outrage-and-consolation-of-a-helpless-god/
Posted by Rick Becker on February 27, 2017
https://onethousandwordsaweek.wordpress.com/2017/02/27/the-martyrs-of-damascus-1860/
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning and took out a comma. In the afternoon–well, I put it back again (Oscar Wilde).
