On this Divine Mercy Sunday, perhaps we will experience the love and mercy of God in a way that transforms our faith and gives to us new life!
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God’s covenant with us is fully revealed in the death, resurrection of Jesus
Because he has been raised, we are irrevocably changed and promised life eternal. For that reason alone we joyfully sing our Easter song — ALLELUIA!!
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The Passion of Christ helps shape our way of thinking
This is why the church seeks to think through and attempt to communicate logical, thoughtful and wise ways to live our lives as Christians.
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Embrace dying within so that new life may emerge
This, of course, goes far beyond Good Friday and Easter Sunday. We are a Paschal people who embrace this not on just a couple of days, but as a way of life.
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We must truly look to him, look at him, and discover his look of love at, for us
“God, who is rich in mercy, because of the great love he had for us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, brought us to life with Christ (by grace you have been saved).”
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God’s ‘wrath’ and ‘jealousy’ cries out for something much more deeper
The sacredness of the temple becomes a sign of the sacredness of the “temple” — our body — in which grace and Spirit and God reside.
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Our Lenten journey should be deeply interwoven into the rhythms of our lives
Let our offering be as precious as Abraham’s as we offer up to God what is most precious to us: our control and our desire to have life only as we would want it.
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Lent means going into the desert and letting go
It is precisely in our nakedness and emptiness, weariness and loneliness that we most find our God.
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More than ever, we need to hear Jesus speak
We need his healing touch. We need his promise of the kingdom. We need our hungers and thirsts (deep within our individual and collective spirits) satisfied.
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Jesus as healer, restorer of life is the Jesus many seek today
The greatest healing throughout the Gospel goes to, and comes from, the center of the spirit in each of us.
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