We will never fully understand it, and yet we touch the mystery countless times every day in prayer, allowing this mystery to guide and to change and to love us!
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The multiple things that can transform us with the word of Jesus
There is no harm in listening. There is no harm in hearing. And maybe, just maybe, we will learn.
And if not, if not convinced, what did we lose? A few minutes?
But what we might gain is even more valuable.
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Lives and love that will last
He cursed the barren tree and he upturned the godless prayer space strewn with tables of commerce that had become a marketplace.
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The grandeur of God can be ours for the taking
Spiritual sight and spiritual insight are gifts of faith that, thanks be to God, his grandeur and abiding love offers to us all.
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Are we willing to respond like Mary with our own simple ‘Yes’?
A reflection on the daily readings, for the Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, by Father Perry. By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor Today, we celebrate not just a visitation but the visitation. And this visit of […]
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Choose last, and experience a little bit of eternal life right now
We just have to do our part and do it to the best of our ability and with all of our heart. Then, no doubt, we will easily — time and time again — choose last and become first.
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Behold others as brothers and sisters in Christ, and behold all in love
We return to walk with and in and through and because of our faith and our love of the Christ.
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A ‘Pentecost Church’ — our inner life of the Spirit comes from the Spirit of God
When we listen attentively to these scriptures today, we hear the wonders of the Spirit of God as forgiveness abounds, tongues are loosened, understanding and proclaiming is everywhere, and people’s hearts and souls and lives go through profound conversion.
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The dance goes on
But we also note that some will prefer not to dance. The won’t look and see, and they will not listen and hear.
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There are many ways to know
Or to say it another way — there are many ways to know. Some know with the mind, but have little connection to the heart. Some know and believe fully with the heart, but do not understand, or even have a confused or erroneous understanding.
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