A reflection on the daily readings, for Thursday of the 26th Week in Ordinary Time, by Father Perry. By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor “Levitated Mass” is the name of an art piece by Michael Heizer at the La Brea […]
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God’s kingdom calls for dedication over everything else
And this is the kind of language that Jesus uses as he proceeds forward toward Jerusalem, where he will die ignominiously on the cross.
Continue readingThe scriptures make us look at our own journeys of faith
We don’t need to be condemning, but rather to be deeply identified with the Christ, and welcome others to come to know him through us.
Continue readingConversion is the Gospel, and salvation
The Gospel speaks exactly the opposite truth of the world.
Continue readingThe ‘greatest story ever told’ continues today
And that glory will have eternal meaning!
Continue readingLonging for the life Jesus offers us
But let us face it — curiosity is not enough.
Continue readingBe formed by the Gospel, and share the life of the kingdom of God
This, also, may have been a favorite Gospel passage of St. Vincent de Paul, who formed the Congregation of the Mission religious community of men and women, and priests and nuns who were formed to form others.
Continue readingFinding God within, among others binds us more deeply than anything else
For us all to discover being true brothers and sisters in Christ, to become the body of Christ in the world is, I think, what Jesus was talking about then and is just as true today.
Continue readingJesus reveals a Father who always loves
Or does he withhold his love?
Continue readingGuarding what is ‘entrusted to us’ — the faith
It is up to us also to pay keen attention to the quality of our soil and its openness to hear that word of God and the teachings of Jesus.
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