Jesus was teaching them while some of them were plotting on how they could put him to death!
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The faithful suffer, but Jesus liberates
And so a blind man hears of Jesus’ presence nearby, and nothing and no one could stop him from crying out louder and louder and louder until he was heard by Jesus, in spite of the many attempts by many to silence him.
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Our connection to God goes deeper than family
We have claimed our discipleship and apostleship in Christ, just like Paul.
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The fulfillment of the law calls us to love, reconcile, heal, peacefully coexist with our neighbor
Jesus sees the law as “calling us to be holy as God is holy.”
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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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She is us
We esteem and honor Mary for the singular privilege given to her by the call to bring God in the person of Jesus into the world in the Feast of the Incarnation — Christmas!
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Jesus — the classic scapegoat — ‘carried the sins of all’
As they dumped everything upon him through their rejection, jealousy, condemnation, and the passion and death on the cross — as they scapegoated the Holy One — he showed how to be the scapegoat of love.
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A spiritual moment of total oneness
The two first readings today are like a photo snapshot in time when all is good with Israel, with church, with us — a time when we remember that our God is Lord!
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Oh my, God!
The lesson for us is clear: listen, open up, change hearts and ways! Repent!
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