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Bread of Life, Love

In today’s Gospel God invites all of us to come to Jesus: “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draw them, and I will raise them on the last day.”  God’s Will is to save all and so God draws all to come to Jesus.  “For God so loved the world that he...

Our Deepest Desire

One of the most famous and insightful sentences in Christian history comes from the first page of Saint Augustine’s Confessions. As the book unfolds, Augustine describes his extensive experiences with unfulfilled desire. And so as if to give his conclusion...

Leading a horse to water

You know the old expression: “You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink.” The proverb is thought to go back to the 12th century. It’s said to have made an appearance in a book called Old English Homilies (c.1175). Interestingly the Old English can be...