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Oratio Divina: Without A Hand To Hold
This oratio divina reflects on the subtle ways the devil draws us into isolation—promising money, honor, and power—only to leave us alone in darkness and without hope. Yet even in this desolation, Christ meets us. The prayer reminds us that Jesus enters our deepest loneliness, offering his hand and inviting us back into communion…
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Lectio: The Rising Sap
Evelyn Underhill beautifully distinguishes faith, hope, and charity: faith perceives reality, charity loves it, while hope looks forward with love to what will be. Faith is steady and rooted like a great tree, but hope is dynamic—ever growing, like a rising sapling and buds preparing to bloom. This reflection highlights the living movement of…