We want to be left tranquil, to have a good salary and at the same time plenty of leisure to do what we want, and access to 5G internet browsing. But then a massive crisis can, in a trice, turn reality upside down.

https://coramfratribus.com/words-on-the-word/confirmation-5/

• Speaker

Bishop Erik Varden

• Edited by

Pål Johannes Nes - St Rita Radio - EWTN Norge

To be tempted, Christ shows us, is something quite banal, part and parcel of the life of faith in a world that has turned its back on God. What we must guard against is tempting God in our turn.

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• Speaker

Bishop Erik Varden

• Edited by

Pål Johannes Nes - St Rita Radio - EWTN Norge

Photograph: Diocese of Hamilton.

It is curious: our intensely body-conscious society in fact takes the body lightly, refusing to see it as significant of identity, supposing that the only selfhood of consequence is the one produced by subjective self-perception, as we construct ourselves in our own image.

Read more at https://coramfratribus.com/archive/letter-on-human-sexuality/

What we celebrate in Holy Week is more than grand historical drama. It is the distillation of the human condition - during these days we are handed the key to unlock the riddle of existence, including our own existence.

Read more at https://coramfratribus.com/words-on-the-word/palm-sunday-2/

Photo: Giotto’s representation of Christ’s entry into Jerusalem. Wikimedia Commons.