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The End of Faith
Neither faith nor hope will be necessary after the Second Coming
By John M. Grondelski | December 11th 2024 6:15 PMAs I've recently noted, Advent Preface I speaks of Christ’s Second Coming -- the first focus of Advent -- as a time “when all at last is made manifest.” I'll add another reason why the Second Coming involves full disclosure: because it is the end of faith. Faith is “the…
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Advent Preface I reads, When the Lord comes again 'all is at last made manifest'
By John M. Grondelski | December 6th 2024 5:21 PMDuring Advent, the Church uses two different Prefaces at Mass: one for most of Advent, the other for Advent’s last nine days. We have two because their foci are different: Advent Preface I looks forward to Christ’s Second Coming at the end of history, while Advent Preface II shifts back,…
READ FULL BLOG POSTHiding from God versus Boxing up God
Do we withdraw from the sacred, or do we try to circumscribe it?
By John M. Grondelski | September 12th 2024 11:50 AMFollowing the Fall, the human reaction was to hide from God. When God calls to the man and the woman, the man announces he is hiding, ostensibly because of his nakedness -- which he also was before he sinned -- but really because of the guilt sin unleashed. It unleashed…
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We continue to learn much from the pope God gave us 45 years ago
By John M. Grondelski | October 16th 2023 12:45 PMOctober 16, 2023, marks the forty-fifth anniversary of the election of St. John Paul II as Pope. There are so many things about his 26-year pontificate for which we should be grateful, but I will focus on one I find particularly important: his Christian humanism. I am aware mention of…
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