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We don’t need to stumble around and die in darkness. For God entered onto the human stage to show us that He is the light of the world. For as the prophet Isaiah predicted, “The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light.” With humble and trusting hearts, we can be the very people who walk out of the darkness into the light of Christ Jesus.
In his book, Richard Rohr introduces the topic in this way: The Universal Christ is “the Christ Mystery, the indwelling of the Divine Presence in everyone and everything since the beginning of time as we know it.” Watch this interview with Fr. Jim Martin's Podcast, "The Spiritual Life."
The grave marker of a couple is illuminated with a candle as a full moon shines through clouds in this undated file photo. Credit: OSV News photo/Lisa Johnston, St. Louis Review
After his father died, my friend said he had been struck by “the
finality of forgetting,” the way people disappear when the last person
who knew them passes away. He tried to tell his children about their
great-grandparents, but could only give them a sense of their ancestors’
lives during the Depression, not who these elders were as people.
He and I shared the sadness of not being able to give people we love
our memories of other people we had loved, in the hope they would love
them too. “It’s as if earlier generations die a second death when the
last generation to know them forgets about them,” my friend said. I knew
what he meant. It’s a part of growing older I didn’t expect, the fading
out of a past I’d thought I could pass on into the future.
Screen grab from the official trailer of “Fox Chase Boy”
I never expected to be producing a show that stares straight at the
Catholic Church’s crisis of sexual abuse and cover-up, but right now it
feels necessary in a way I cannot ignore.
This piece is for anyone who has ever felt silenced, shamed or
pressured to look away from something they knew was wrong. It is for
Catholics, non-Catholics, ex-Catholics, people who are allergic to
religion, people who have never stepped inside a church and people who
have. Because the thing I am talking about is not “a Catholic issue.” It
is a human one.
