A reflection on the daily readings, for Holy Saturday, at the Easter Vigil in the Holy Night of Easter, by Father Perry. By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor + On a “skull-shaped” hill appropriately named Golgotha (“skull” in Aramaic), Jesus […]
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This day, we enter fully into such woe
A reflection on the daily readings, for Good Friday of the Lord’s Passion, by Father Perry. By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor + “O, woe is me …” This famous saying is thought, by many, to have originated in Shakespeare. […]
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Never underestimate the power of symbols, words, a single sound
And we should also never underestimate that power, both to us as individuals and as a communal body.
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No cost too great when one is in service to the Lord
Jesus was the message, the messenger, the servant, the lover, the teacher, the master — and he paid the price with his very life. In this Gospel scene, those to whom he had poured out his love and teaching gave his very self to them; it was there among them that such rejection would take place.
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Embrace the darkness
Light and darkness — opposites, and yet inextricably connected to one another. Once the dawn appears, the daylight grows stronger and stronger until it is brilliant. And in the daylight, one can work and play and perform and affect so much for one’s self and for others.
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You must wash the feet of everyone
Jesus predicts, in a very indirect way, his coming death and shows this act of love as awareness and appreciation of his love and presence experienced in the now and predicted as a love and presence that would be eternally given.
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This Holy Week is our week
The forbidden, Lenten “A” word returns in all its glory at the Easter Vigil, and will be our Easter Song!
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Get up and dance to the song who is God
These waters are (metaphorically) flowing from the temple of God’s grace — everywhere!
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We rejoice in his complete openness through marital and parental near-catastrophes and rejoice in Joseph’s faithful response to God.
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Our ‘yes’ to Jesus is ‘yes’ to seeing
That “yes,” however, means that we believe in his teachings, his example, his way of life, his values, his surrendering to God, his unequivocal “yes” to loving always, his preference for the poor and marginalized, and his refusal to be blind followers of the law.
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