Each one is a dress rehearsal for the total “Paschal Mystery” to be realized in our physical death and resurrection — the promise.
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Look up at the cross, it’s where we find redemption, new life
For it was at Jesus’ most humbled and vulnerable moment in his life — on the cross — that he so purely and divinely revealed his love for all to see.
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Like St. John Chrysostom, we’re compelled to follow, become like Christ in every way
That was his calling, and that is our calling.
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Love, mercy triumph over evil
And that infuriated the scribes and Pharisees.
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Faith, if it does not have works, is dead
How could someone witness so many people healed, renewed, uplifted and still not come to know Jesus as one “sent from God”?
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Jesus teaches that religion, faith are more than just following laws
Keeping the law is realized in a moment, in a specific response. Loving as Jesus teaches is conversion that never ends and forever deepens within us.
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Today’s ugly Gospel story becomes a mirror for us
Especially of what others may think of us.
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Jesus shares with us the love he gave his apostles
And now, as we celebrate the beginning of our 100th year, it is as if the parish was born on this day.
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In the seeking, we often find something new
We begin with one dream and often discover several others along the way that are so much more than we could have ever hoped for.
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Mary was so special in her person and in her role
And in her response to God: That she must have been preserved from the “spiritual corruption of sin” at her conception, and from the “bodily corruption of death” at the end of her life.
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