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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No cost too great when one is in service to the Lord
Jesus was the message, the messenger, the servant, the lover, the teacher, the master — and he paid the price with his very life. In this Gospel scene, those to whom he had poured out his love and teaching gave his very self to them; it was there among them that such rejection would take place.
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Embrace the darkness
Light and darkness — opposites, and yet inextricably connected to one another. Once the dawn appears, the daylight grows stronger and stronger until it is brilliant. And in the daylight, one can work and play and perform and affect so much for one’s self and for others.
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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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Get up and dance to the song who is God
These waters are (metaphorically) flowing from the temple of God’s grace — everywhere!
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We rejoice in his complete openness through marital and parental near-catastrophes and rejoice in Joseph’s faithful response to God.
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Our ‘yes’ to Jesus is ‘yes’ to seeing
That “yes,” however, means that we believe in his teachings, his example, his way of life, his values, his surrendering to God, his unequivocal “yes” to loving always, his preference for the poor and marginalized, and his refusal to be blind followers of the law.
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Those who are wise listen when Jesus speaks
And we are led to discover wisdom and life, and living and goodness and Godness through the truly simple and ordinary.
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The fruitfulness flowing from, through our spirit is ripened all the more with understanding
And as we grasp and come to know in ways that are profoundly Godlike, God’s truth shines in us and brings peace and fullness of spirit and living, and goodness and God-ness in us.
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Do we see, hear, believe? It is what Lent invites us to do
That, once again, is what Lent invites us to do. And the psalmist, once again, declares in this way: “If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.”
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