We are asked in faith to attempt to experience the same during this Lent. We are invited to strip away comforts, lessen our dependence on things that make us feel good, and deny our use of whatever makes us feel safe and secure.
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Jesus teaches purity, totality of love which go beyond what has been taught to you
God — who is love and who loves all — always, in all ways, calls us to love in the same way; therefore, Jesus captures within his teaching that purity and totality of love which go far beyond what “you have heard” or what has been taught to you before.
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Jesus invites us to look beyond the extreme limit of the law
The fulfillment of the law calls us to love, to reconcile, to heal, to peacefully co-existence with our neighbor. Jesus sees the law as “calling us to be holy as God is holy.”
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The future comes through Jesus to be fulfilled
This presentation or consecration also seemed to open the door and align this child with God in a way that the future was to come through him to be fulfilled, and bring about promises of old while creating something new.
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Jesus comes to bring light to shine in the darkness
He came to bring light to shine in the darkness and to give new life. His ministry still lives on. His light today is the same. The kingdom of God is at hand. His teaching continues to guide our lives to justice and love. His healing power still makes us whole.
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The extraordinary power of God becomes ordinary every day in our lives
As we come back to Ordinary Time in the church year, we are called to see that the extraordinary power of God becomes ordinary every day in our lives.
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We get our identity from our faith in Jesus Christ
Here it is, that we, too, discover our identity and mission are one. We get our identity from our faith in Jesus Christ and our mission, too, which is his mission.
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What does the star, the light, reveal to us?
What does the star, the light, reveal to us? Do we discover any new truths about us, about God, about others? Do we bring our gifts and, in the giving, discover that we have been far more gifted?
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There is no question about God’s promise of fruitfulness
The favor of God falls upon all of us, especially those anointed with God’s own Spirit in baptism.
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God can can take our fears and turn them into blessings filled with grace
Again, we come to realize that God is in all, works through all, and can take the surprising and shocking realities of our lives and turn them into blessings filled with grace.
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