Salesian Studies

Tag: God

  • God is in the Mess

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    -Fr. John Roche, SDB I don’t know about you, but every Advent and Christmas season reawakens inside my heart the desire for the perfect Christmas, the perfect family celebration or the greatest and most meaningful spiritual experience of the Incarnation. Swinging from the secular to the religious, the longing is all the same. Madison Avenue…

  • It is Who is Inside that Counts

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    -Fr. John Roche, SDB Browsing for a greeting card some years ago, I came upon a section of cards that had no particular greeting on the inside. These cards were labeled “Birthday, blank inside” or “Thank You, blank inside,” etc. I took a moment or two to linger in this aisle looking at the various…