Do we understand these parables? If so, can we say that the seed planted in us and in our personal faith hearts has produced 100 percent?
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Do we go way beyond blood relationship to brotherhood, sisterhood?
When we get in this place, we can begin to see the transforming unity that is God among us in Christ Jesus.
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To not ‘know the Lord and Christ’ is a deprivation
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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Does Jesus’ power reach into us? Does his word have authority, leave us spellbound?
The evangelist Mark presents a Jesus to us that has power over demons, over nature, over human illness. Do we find that when he calls we always wish to follow — “Your will”?
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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.
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This 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.
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Christ 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.
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This 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.
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God’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.
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Like 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.
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