It does not imply evil or wickedness or fault; it is just a terrible lack, especially when one finds out what they were missing.
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We must ask, ‘Who is he?’ and deliver our own answer
The inner answer that bubbles up in us is crucial to our faith; it is crucial to how we will be engaged by the Christ and how we will engage him. It is crucial to the way we will experience God’s grace.
Continue readingThis High Priest has invited us to share in this new covenant, written in our lives
We are called to give everything, also — our love, our ministry, our lives.
Continue readingChrist is the prefect representation of God in our midst
No wonder, then, that even unclean spirits could recognize with such clarity and just had to shout out: “You are the Son of God.” In our best of liturgies, our simplest of prayers, our most harmonious songs, and in the quiet of our hearts, we are invited both communally and individually to come to that recognition.
Continue readingThis Gospel is a plea on our behalf to seek out the good, a response that will bring life
Today, let us put an end to hardness of heart and seek to open our hearts to compassion and love.
Continue readingGod’s covenantal love that he has made with us is eternal, will never break
In answer to the tortuous complaints, criticisms and judgement of the Pharisees, Jesus the Christ puts it all into context again — covenantal love.
Continue readingLike MLK, do we answer God’s call to transform the world?
Lord, we apologize for those who never heard him, who were mired in their ugly and sinful past and refused to go forward to a better future, who participated in and perfected the art of hatred and racism, who were capable of and actually committed murder actually or complicity.
Continue readingGod, present in our humanity, invites us into his divinity
No wonder this word, in the person of the Christ, comes particularly to sinners and those in need, and not the righteous.
Continue readingIn the scriptures, God shows what being open to him can do
The Christ goes for broke — he takes care of business; he teaches and peers into the hearts of his “enemies” and shows them what faith can do.
Continue readingThe word is so amazing when we hear God speak an ‘if’ to us.
How many “ifs” will open possibilities and doors and chances to grow, live, love, fin, discover, be transformed, and not harden, but find the voice of God giving and living within us and through us.
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