God put you on Earth to love you. You are a child of God, no matter who you are or where you are from, you are valuable.

Sunday, Oct. 29, is the 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Mass readings: Exodus 22:20-26; Psalm 18:2-3, 3-4, 47, 51; 1 Thessalonians 1:5c-10; Matthew 22:34-40. There was an expression common among the ...

You wouldn’t! There is a huge piece missing there, and it is the part where you don’t just love God but you know that God loves you. In fact, I would say that you cannot really love God until ...

Our love affair with Torah is perhaps the closest ... we saw ourselves as the people that God loves. Now, all too many of us define ourselves as the people that the world hates.” ...

Or, as one theologian noted, it's about "disordered loves." For example, you can't commit adultery unless someone else's love means more than God's love. You can't steal unless something else is ...

We say “God loves” rather easily, but do we understand what it means in the daily exercise of life? If, as committed followers, we are commanded to love as God loves, how can such a simple ...

Why does God love you? The answer isn’t because of who we are and what we’ve done for him. In fact, God loves us despite who we are and what we’ve done. God doesn’t love you because you ...

The Holy Spirit lives in us, enabling us to love as God loves. In Romans 5:5 we read, “The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit.” We now can love because God’s ...

I would be devastated if God was a detached god. One who created us and then sat back and left us to fend for ourselves. A god who left us in our sins with no plan of rescue or hope for a ...

Even if we are sinners, he draws near to help us. The Lord loves us as we are, this is God's crazy love." The Catholic Church teaches that members of the LGBT community should be treated with ...

The Lord loves us as we are. This is God’s crazy love.” Pope Francis’s position on the LGBTQ community and gay marriage has been a subject of interest and discussion since he became the ...

Even if we are sinners, he draws near to help us. The Lord loves us as we are. This is God’s crazy love.” The Catholic Church teaches that members of the LGBTQ community should be treated with ...