How did Mary respond to this invite? She did not respond like Ahaz. No, indeed; rather, Mary said it simply, “Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord. May it be done to me according to your word.”
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The divinity of Jesus is our great hope
This is the great feast of incarnation. This is God coming into our humanity, God divinizing our humanity.
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In proclaiming God’s kingdom, his love gushes from him to us
And also to us? Me thinks that is so!
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God our rock outlasts, withstands the buffeting winds, storms of life
Both Isaiah and Jesus are pointing us towards a most important focus, igniting within us a confidence in our God, and a belief that will be imprinted in and on our hearts, “In God we trust.”
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Embrace the message of peace from the prince of peace
To truly make peace a lived reality, today.
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Are we willing to produce good fruit for the ‘long haul’?
If indeed humans have existed on this planet for 160,000 years, God definitely has “hung around” around with us, put up with a lot, loved us in spite of ourselves, and continues to grace and gift us without conditions and without limits.
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This day, we enter fully into such woe
A reflection on the daily readings, for Good Friday of the Lord’s Passion, by Father Perry. By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor + “O, woe is me …” This famous saying is thought, by many, to have originated in Shakespeare. […]
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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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Letting the good bless us
Don’t perform in order to be praised and noticed. Do the good; serve others.
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God gives good advice, but do we take it?
Since everyone at some time or another needs healing, presumably we are very lucky and no doubt very comforted with Jesus’ words.
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