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When the Dead Remain: On Grief, Friendship, and the Communion of Saints (Lectio Divina)
Some losses arrive quietly — not as rupture, but as presence. In this Lectio Divina, Robert Van Valkenburgh reflects on the memory of a dear friend who died last year: a man who introduced him to Catholicism more than twenty-five years ago and whose silent faithfulness he is only now able to see and…
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Lectio Divina: Among God’s Mysteries
Karl Rahner reminds us that through Christ, even the most ordinary and inevitable part of human existence—death—has been transformed into a holy mystery. In Christ, our dying is not an end but a vocation: a passage shaped by grace, infused with divine purpose, and joined to His redemptive love. This Lectio Divina invites us…