Keeping the law is realized in a moment, in a specific response. Loving as Jesus teaches is conversion that never ends and forever deepens within us.
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Jesus calls us to share in his chalice
To empty it so that others can become full to love, and forgive always and everywhere and everyone.
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You just can’t take it with you
In the end, the real wealth we should all seek is God’s love and grace, and walking hand-in-hand with the Lord!
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Look and see at this truth
But the best gift of all will come with the final call to live it all with God.
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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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Why we serve
Jesus came to serve and he gave his life serving others. We lead others by serving them. In our service of love, we grow closer and closer to Jesus Christ, until the day we can say, as St. Paul did, that is not we who serve, but Jesus who serves through us.
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The gift of Lent calls us to the mountaintop
We, too, have been invited to the mountaintop. We, too, know of the transformation of Jesus through his death and resurrection. We, too, have been forever changed by the promise to share the same, to experience new and eternal life through a sharing in that same death and resurrection.
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