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Author Archives: John DeCostanza

Traditioning Joy on the Third Sunday of Advent: Testifying to the light

December 17, 2017by John DeCostanza Leave a comment

“I rejoice heartily in the LORD, in my God is the joy of my soul” Isaiah 61:10 “Rejoice always. Pray without ceasing. In all circumstances give thanks, for this is […]

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Advent, Blessed Virgin Mary, Faith, Mental Health, Prayer, Revelation, Salvation, Theology and Culture, Vulnerability

Trauma and the Death of the Body of Christ

April 15, 2017by John DeCostanza Leave a comment

Trauma and the Death of the Body of Christ[i] When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who was also a disciple of Jesus. He went […]

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Death, Embodiment, Grief, Healing, Holy Saturday, Suffering, Theology and Culture, trauma

Being Neighbor in the Crisis of the Prevailing Paradigm: Accompanying Immigrants

February 19, 2017by John DeCostanza Leave a comment

It has been a difficult week in my ministry, but an excruciating week for those I love who are vulnerable and targeted because they are alternately documented in this age […]

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compassion, Faith, Immigration, Pope Francis, Social Justice, Solidarity, Stories and narrative, Suffering, Theology and Culture

Palm Sunday: Affirming the Value of All Living

March 20, 2016by John DeCostanza 7 Comments

The Palm Sunday liturgy produces a tension in us. The stories that we tell are really a process, a journey that we call Passion. We have Jesus’ triumphant entry into […]

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Lent, Liturgy, Scripture, Theology and Culture

The Fruit of Holy Ground

February 28, 2016by John DeCostanza 3 Comments

  When the LORD saw him coming over to look at it more closely, God called out to him from the bush, “Moses! Moses!” He answered, “Here I am.” God […]

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Catholic colleges and universities, Common Good, Education, Embodiment, Lent, Sacred, Shark Week, Social Justice, The Gospel of Luke, Theology and Church, Theology and Culture, white privilege

at a payphone at a gas station on Christmas Eve

December 24, 2015by John DeCostanza 2 Comments

  And Joseph too went up from Galilee from the town of Nazareth to Judea, to the city of David that is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house […]

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Advent, Christian Life, Christmas, Christmas Season, Community, Spirituality, Theology and Culture

Accompanying Survivors: Holding Trauma and Doing It Well

September 17, 2015by John DeCostanza 1 Comment

For the past year, I have served my campus community as a deputy coordinator in the university’s process for adjudicating Title IX complaints. Sexual violence falls under Title IX of […]

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Catholic colleges and universities, Justice, Theology and Culture

Embracing New Orleans: Story, Memory, and Recovery Ten Years On

August 29, 2015by John DeCostanza 2 Comments

(Editor’s Note: This post is the second of a series of three reflections on the 10-Year Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Be sure to check out the posts on Friday and Sunday by John […]

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Catholic Social Teaching, Catholicism, Christian Life, Community, Human Dignity, Social Justice, Solidarity, Suffering, Theology and Culture

To Praise, To Bless, To Preach: The Value of Dominic in the Age of Big Personality

August 8, 2015by John DeCostanza Leave a comment

I was walking along the beach with my five-year-old son.  We walked past families with young children like ours who had inevitably pressed some adult into the forced labor of […]

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https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2015/01/die-in-staged-to-protest-killings.html

Please do NOT pardon the interruption:  Ezekiel, prophetic imagination, and mercy in contemporary social movements

July 23, 2015by John DeCostanza 2 Comments

“What the Church does with its creeds and its doctrinal tradition… it flattens out all the images and metaphors to make it fit into a nice formulation and then it’s […]

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Christian Life, Justice, Social Justice, Theology and Culture

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