We will rejoice with the angels that the messiah has been born and hear the good news proclaimed in their song.
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Being ready, being alert; opening eyes, ears, hearts to meet the Lord
Let us hope so! Let us plan on it! Let us finally prepare ourselves! Let us be ready with our alleluias!
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There is great purpose in God’s great blessings
This is, indeed, a story of significance, and then a boy of significance, and finally a future for a whole people of significance.
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Mary’s visit to Elizabeth can evoke in us the same joy and love the cousins experienced
Recognizing the Christ and rejoicing in the Christ within and among us is our role as Christians, as followers of Christ.
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Biblical miracles are the stuff of our lives
This is the great feast of incarnation. This is God coming into our humanity, God divinizing our humanity.
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Are we willing to respond like Mary with our own simple ‘Yes’?
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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The Holy Spirit is poured into everyone who follows him, shares the proclamation of his message
The Spirit of God enters us, fills us, strengthens us, guides us, blesses us, sanctifies us, teaches us, enlivens us — and because of us, others, too, have “seen and testified that he is the Son of God.”
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God’s word is filled with wonder, awe — and even romance
By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor A reflection on the daily readings, for Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Advent, by Father Perry. “O Emmanuel, our King and Giver of Law.” At the beginning of the Mass, usually a song […]
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This is Mary, the model of church, the model for us
As we celebrate and honor Mary on this beautiful feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, we must understand that she is model of faith and model to not only honor but to imitate.
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How much will we allow our Lord to love us?
Now this, yes; this is Divine Joy, spoken in a wonderful question or almost disbelief: “And how does this happen to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?”
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