And for all of the love that Mary receives from the church — and she receives an awful lot of love — me thinks that her own desire is most of all that we grow in our love for her Son.
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Do we, like Mary’s ‘fiat!’, say yes to God’s grace and blessings?
For after all, Paul tells us quite clearly that we, too, have been filled with every spiritual blessing in the heavens.
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Open your spirit, be ready to meet Jesus any way he comes
Indeed the good news of Advent is: “The Lord Jesus shall come! Rejoice!” This is what the church believes. This is why we celebrate.
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At first sight, Zacchaeus truly saw! Do we see?
Was Jesus really that good at seeing goodness, at seeing what nobody else could see?
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Like Mary, we cannot turn away when God speaks deeply within us
And so as individuals, as well as communities of faith, we are open to that voice. We listen. We truly become intrigued. We respond and even seek for more.
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The cross shows us two very different faces
But we must look up and see. We simply must see, especially with the eyes of our hearts, so that we, too, can confess that “Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”
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Through Christ, we are on the threshold of a new, everlasting life
A reflection on the daily readings, for the Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, by Father Perry. By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor There is an apt expression for the moment in time when a person or a people […]
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Are we willing to respond like Mary with our own simple ‘Yes’?
A reflection on the daily readings, for the Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, by Father Perry. By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor Today, we celebrate not just a visitation but the visitation. And this visit of […]
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Behold others as brothers and sisters in Christ, and behold all in love
We return to walk with and in and through and because of our faith and our love of the Christ.
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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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