We can be friends with the living God! All we need to do is accept his request. Jesus is inviting us to be his follower and friend. He is inviting us to share in his holiness, in his divine nature. He is calling us to be like him here on earth so that we will see our Father’s face in heaven.
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The father of the prodigal son is our Father
This is not so much the story of the prodigal son as it is the story of the Father of endless and unconditional love.
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Why we serve
Jesus came to serve and he gave his life serving others. We lead others by serving them. In our service of love, we grow closer and closer to Jesus Christ, until the day we can say, as St. Paul did, that is not we who serve, but Jesus who serves through us.
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We all get our Moses chance each day to stand before our burning bush
We all get our Moses chance each day to stand before our burning bush — God — who remarkably gives light, life, power and grace to us.
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A burning love for souls
Jesus lived with a burning desire for the glory of God and the salvation of souls. We see his compassion, his excitement to share God’s love, on every page of the Gospels.
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The gift of Lent calls us to the mountaintop
We, too, have been invited to the mountaintop. We, too, know of the transformation of Jesus through his death and resurrection. We, too, have been forever changed by the promise to share the same, to experience new and eternal life through a sharing in that same death and resurrection.
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Mercy for the merciful
Jesus calls us to forgive as we have been forgiven. Not seven times, but seventy times seven times. In other words, every time. And we cannot be stingy or grudging in our mercy. The measure we give is the measure we will get back.
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Archbishop José H. Gomez’s statement on California death penalty moratorium
For many years now, my brother Catholic bishops and I have been calling for an end to the death penalty, not only in California but throughout the United States. So this is a good day for California and a good day for our country.
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Lent is a journey we take together
By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor “I opened two gifts this morning: They were my eyes.” — Anonymous. The language of numbers, in the Bible, is a language of significances. The number 40 was used to signify a very long […]
Continue readingA Lenten return to Jesus
In these 40 days of Lent, I want to call us — myself first of all — to deepen our sense of the mystery of our lives in Christ. I want us to try to go deeper in our personal conversion, deeper into the heart of the Gospels and the New Testament writings.
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