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SALT OF THE EARTH

               “Jesus said to the disciples: ‘You are the salt of the earth.  But if salt loses its taste, with what can it be seasoned?  It is no longer goof for anything but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.  You are the light of the world.  A city set on a mountain cannot be […]

PARADISE

               “All nature is meant to make us think of paradise.  Woods, fields, valleys, hills, the rivers and the sea, the clouds traveling across the sky, light and darkness, sun and stars, remind us that the world was first created as a paradise, for the first Adam, and that in spite of his sin and […]

MEMORIES OF BLOOD

               “What a remarkable expression that is, to ‘satisfy the memories of one’s blood.’  Our memories, to be ours, must be more than those memories we have only of ourselves.  Our blood remembers our grandparents, our ancestors, the kind of being we are whose soul and body mysteriously belong both to eternity and to our […]