Never Give Up On a Soul

THE NOW WORD ON MASS READINGS
for May 9th, 2014
Friday of the Third Week of Easter

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Flower springing up after a forest fire

 

 

ALL must appear lost. All must appear as if evil has won. The grain of wheat must fall into the ground and die…. and only then does it bear fruit. So it was with Jesus… Calvary… the Tomb… it was as though darkness had crushed the light.

But then Light burst forth from the abyss, and in a moment, darkness was vanquished.

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The Fires of Persecution

THE NOW WORD ON MASS READINGS
for May 8th, 2014
Thursday of the Third Week of Easter

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WHILE a forest fire can devastate the trees, it is precisely the heat of fire that opens up pine cones, thus, reseeding the woodland all over again.

Persecution is a fire that, while consuming religious freedom and purifying the Church of dead wood, opens up seeds of new life. Those seeds are both the martyrs who give witness to the Word by their very blood, and those who witness by their words. That is, the Word of God is the seed that falls into the ground of hearts, and the blood of the martyrs waters it…

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