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Led by Father Rich Vitale, we’re a progressive Christian ministry dedicated to Jesus of Nazareth’s Message of love, justice, and mercy.
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About Message From The Margins
Message From The Margins is led by Father Rich Vitale, an Old Catholic priest, calling people back to the love, justice, and mercy Jesus taught. We are part of the National Catholic Church of North America, welcoming all who seek faith rooted in compassion and truth.
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Start your day with reflections rooted in Jesus’ message of love, justice, and mercy. These brief, thoughtful reflections will help you grow spiritually and live out your faith in daily life.
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From Awareness to PracticeWe have spent this week naming something.We have named the center.We have named how easily it shifts.We have named Godzilla.We have named the systems that provoke him.Now comes the harder part.Practice.It is one thing to recognize that our interior lives are being destabilized.It is another thing entirely to retrain them.LentRead more
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A Happy Enough EndingOpeningWe often imagine that once responsibility is owned, once truth is spoken, once the blame game stops, everything should return to normal.But Genesis does not give us that ending.Adam speaks.Eve speaks.God responds.Consequences are named.The ground will resist.Childbirth will hurt.Mortality will define their horizon.The garden will no longer be home.There isRead more
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The First Ever Blame GameOpeningWhen I was a little kid, my brothers and I, three boys close in age, were rather… shall we say…. prone to roughhousing. We built full games out of Ninja Turtles, Ghostbusters, Transformers, Voltron. The Den was often less a room and more a battlefield.And inevitably, something would crash.Something wouldRead more
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