What is it about the poor? Why are they so special in the scriptures? Why do they seem to listen to God and walk in his ways more?
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You are invited to our parish and online celebrations of Christmas
You are invited to our celebrations of Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year’s Eve, and New Year’s Day.
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Open yourself to the Spirit of God
Ah! The star was indeed true! And the staff and authority was his. Also true! But just as true as the prophetic utterances of Balaam was the ignorance and lack of faith.
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We should be joy-filled
Change of heart always shows itself as authentic and real when lives also change. “Rejoicing in the Lord always” is a way of living that allows the Spirit of God to fill us and to burst forth from us in actions that are God-like. Rose-colored vestments and candles are a sign of something that has hopefully happened to us during our Advent; hopefully, we have heard the good news of God’s mercy and love.
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Fire from the heavens changes, burns into us a new way of living, loving
Because what Jesus is saying has to do with change of hearts that are so profound that attitudes, ways of thinking and speaking and being are transformed.
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Listen. See. Take it into your heart.
And the Gospel warns that some will not hear, nor see, nor take it into the heart and will miss it, misname it, judge it, falsify it, refuse it, and in their own way become disconnected! And don’t blame God for it. God promised eternal connection, never cutting off or blotting away.
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Do the right thing
Actually, it seems a little strange, weird — and ugly, even — that God calls Jacob a worm and Israel a maggot. It also is always a little difficult to hear about the violence, war, conquering, and other social upheaval that God would create.
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I’m your servant, Lord. Use me, use me, use me!
The only thing I can say — and I say it with as much gumption as I can muster: If we are going to believe these mystical and wondrous thing said of Mary, then we must believe also the mystical and wondrous things said to the Ephesians and equally to us.
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Heaven is glad and the earth rejoices
To experience healing forgiveness — to receive it and/or to offer it to another — brings “soulfulness” into our lives; we are “made new.”
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What am I going to get?
The coming of the Lord is not “just another day.” This is the event, the moment, the day, the “we’ve never seen anything like this before” time!
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