God sent an angel and told Joseph there was more here than meets the eye.
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The hour that changed human history forever
What he preached and what he did were one in the same. There was no difference. He lived his word.
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Humanity’s light shivered in the cold
Mary, for her part, just “kept all these things … in her heart.”
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They spoke and listened to each other
Is not this evidence of wholeness, holiness, and a healthy quality of life?
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The past is celebrated, proclaimed by us at Christmas
We will rejoice with the angels that the messiah has been born and hear the good news proclaimed in their song.
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Can we see ourselves as vessels of Christ?
And would that we were able to utter the same words of Mary with total conviction? “Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord. May it be done to me according to your word.”
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In Lourdes, getting to Jesus through Mary
We go to Jesus through Mary because Jesus came to us through Mary.
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Like Mary, do we really see, hear, know this Christ?
Is and does our discipleship keep turning, and growing deeper and deeper each day?
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Formed and called by the same Spirit — do we believe?
Oh, what it must have been like — after the death and resurrection — to remember these acts, and these words and their meaning.
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What impression will ‘the hour’ make on us?
And “that hour” was not a matter of 60 minutes; that hour was the suffering and death, and burial and resurrection. The hour of glory.
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