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You can make a buck studying just about anything these days, regardless of its relative effect on humanity and the world. But one useful topic for study is the phenomenon of Facebook; why it draws so many people, what various personality types are more likely to post, etc., because Facebook offers an iconic representation of our time, who we are, and what we seem to care about....

Today we celebrate the feast of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, traditionally called Corpus Christi. It is a day of remembrance and thanksgiving for the mercy of God who gives His entire self to us continuously. We demonstrate our gratitude by returning in love what we have received. As we give thanks for the Sacrament of Holy Eucharist we remember its transformative power. Pope Francis has instructed the Church that the Eucharist is not a reward, but a healing remedy...

We hold within us a knowing and a not-knowing of God. Sometimes we hear God speaking to the very fiber of our being with every breath we take, with the sun that rises, as we gaze lovingly at others or are graced with the gaze of another resting on us. When we completely still ourselves, we especially know and hear God in the silence. Yet at other times we experience the ungraspability of the One we desire most, even a frustrating inability often to explain that desire to ourselves.....

Veni, Sancte Spiritus Come, Holy Spirit, come! For weeks we’ve heard about Jesus’ promise that another Advocate would come, the Spirit of Truth, unceasingly renewing Christ’s presence in the world. Certainly that was the faith-filled hope of the disciples when Jesus ascended out of their sight. Come, Holy Spirit, come! ....