Throughout the holiday we tend to assess the previous year, keeping in mind the challenging times and appreciating for the nerve to progress into the next season with confident delight. In the story of the raising of Lazarus, we are challenged with what it indicates to leave what holds us back and welcome brand-new life. Today on The State of Belief, Interfaith Alliance’s weekly radio program and podcast, Dad James Martin and host Rev. Paul Raushenbush check out the significance of the story of Lazarus, highlighting the universal message of facing sorrow, loss, and the invite to start a journey of spiritual renewal. Jim likewise shares his experience from this year’s Synod and the course forward for LGBTQ Catholics in the Church.
I believe without thankfulness, you wind up focusing just on the unfavorable, you wind up focusing just on locations where your life is doing not have, and you tend to compare yourself with other individuals’s lives.– Fr. James Martin, S.J., New York Times very popular author and editor-at-large at America Magazine. Dad Jim likewise functions as editor of Outreach, an LGBTQ Catholic resource. He was selected to the Catholic Church Secretariat of Communication by Pope Francis and just recently returned from Rome, where he participated in the Church Synod. His most current book is entitled Emerge: The Promise of Jesus’s Greatest Miracle.
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