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Christ’s Sufferings and Ours: Good Friday reflections from Guardini’s “The Lord”

April 10, 2020 Fr. Charles Fox 4

Editor’s note: This essay was originally published by CWR on April 19, 2019. The problem of suffering is one that has plagued and haunted humanity since the Fall of our first parents. Suffering prompts in […]

'The Crucifixion' by Giovanni Bellini (1501-03)
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Christ the King, Exalted by the Cross

November 23, 2019 Carl E. Olson 0

Readings: • 1 Sam 5:1-3 • Ps 122:1-2, 3-4, 4-5 • Col 1:12-20 • Lk 23:35-43 “Eighty and six years have I served Him, and He never did me any injury: how then can I […]

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Pain Is Not Metaphysically Basic

April 18, 2019 Bishop Robert Barron 14

I write these words on Holy Thursday, as the Christian world enters into the holiest and most spiritually intense time of the year. The long season of Lent has prepared us to delve once more […]

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What are some lessons we can learn in the School of the Cross?

April 5, 2019 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 2

In the fall, Jews observe the feast of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. On Good Friday, the preeminent Day of Atonement, Mother Church focuses our attention on the Cross and on Him hanging from […]

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The Seven Last Words from the Cross: “I Thirst!”

March 27, 2018 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 5

For what does He thirst? Surely not for the narcotic mentioned in Mark 15:36. No, Jesus thirsts for more important things, but the Cross separates […]

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Seven Last Words from the Cross: “Father, forgive them…”

March 23, 2018 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 16

What does it take to forgive? A unique mental attitude is required at the natural level; only an infusion of divine grace can elevate that […]

The Dispatch

The Easter Triduum: Entering into the Paschal Mystery

April 14, 2017 Carl E. Olson 1

Note: The following piece was originally written for the April 9, 2006, edition of Our Sunday Visitor newspaper, and has been posted on Ignatius Insight. I am posting it here for CWR readers who may have not seen […]

Essay

To Glory in the Cross of Christ

April 13, 2017 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 0

During Lent, Mother Church focused our attention on the Cross and on Him hanging from it. Only the most hard-hearted are not moved to pity and sorrow. Our reflection on the mystery of the Cross, […]

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