A reflection on the daily readings, for the Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, by Father Perry. By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor Today, we celebrate not just a visitation but the visitation. And this visit of […]
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Choose last, and experience a little bit of eternal life right now
We just have to do our part and do it to the best of our ability and with all of our heart. Then, no doubt, we will easily — time and time again — choose last and become first.
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Behold others as brothers and sisters in Christ, and behold all in love
We return to walk with and in and through and because of our faith and our love of the Christ.
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The dance goes on
But we also note that some will prefer not to dance. The won’t look and see, and they will not listen and hear.
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Resurrection would never really have meaning without death, entombment
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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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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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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Those who are wise listen when Jesus speaks
And we are led to discover wisdom and life, and living and goodness and Godness through the truly simple and ordinary.
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