by The Exodus Team | Nov 7, 2025 | Formation Series, The Parable of the Talents
Christ gave us two great commandments: to love God and to love our neighbor.Charity fulfills both commandments.Through charity, we want others to share our friendship with God.An example from family life gives an analogous situation: as husbands, we promise to love...
by The Exodus Team | Nov 7, 2025 | Formation Series, The Parable of the Talents
In Christ’s parable, one worker is given one talent, another two, another five.The utter generosity is astounding.Five talents is as much silver as a person would make working all day, six days a week, for one hundred years.Such a gift, while being extremely heavy,...
by The Exodus Team | Nov 7, 2025 | Formation Series, The Parable of the Talents
The only time rocks don’t fall is when something blocks them.When the obstacle is removed, they rush downward.Our love has a similar impulse; our hearts long to be swept up toward God, but we can prevent that impulse to divine union.We can bury our love beneath the...
by The Exodus Team | Nov 7, 2025 | Formation Series, The Parable of the Talents
Freedom is defined by our power to choose God, not to neglect him.“For freedom Christ has set us free” (Galatians 5:1).God has given us the chance to make our love grow, thus potentially multiplying the force with which we seek him.While rocks cannot stop themselves...
by The Exodus Team | Nov 7, 2025 | Formation Series, The Parable of the Talents
“Now after a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them” (Matthew 25:19).Christ’s parable reminds us that the gift of charity is not principally for the sake of this life; charity achieves its end in heaven.Charity focuses us on our...
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