Spirituality of the
Readings
John Foley,
S. J.
A Fresh Surprise of Love
Afterlife? Let us face it, the culture of the Western world is filled with unbelief about afterlife. Some people say there is no such thing. As a popular song once put it, “If that's is all there is, then let’s keep dancing.”
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| In
Exile
Ron Rolheiser, OMI
Against An Eternal Horizon
Unless we can somehow place our present lives against an horizon of an after-life that completes it, the punishing limits, daily inadequacy, and brute mortality of this world will eventually drive us to depression, bitterness, or violence.
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| Glancing Thoughts
Eleonore
Stump
Our Beloved Dead
The problem is that, for us, our beloved dead are dead. They may be in a much better place; but we are still here, and they are not. We are like people who put their beloved friends on a train to a far-off place from which they will not return.
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| The Perspective of
Justice
Gerald
Darring
We
Pray For Them All
What will it take for us to create a world in which we treat the living with
as much respect and equality as we treat the dead?
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Discussion Questions
Anne
Osdieck
Death, Hope, and Life
Jesus promised eternal life to everyone who believes in him. Do your deceased loved ones have eternal life? Do you think God sometimes gives us signs that they are safe? more… |
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