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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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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Has the cross done what it was prophetically promised to do?
Has it, indeed, turned hearts back to our fathers and our fathers to us; back to our mothers and our mothers to us. Back to our brothers and our sisters, and even back to ourselves? One wonders.
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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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Jesus revives; that is, he gives new life
And, will we be grateful and speak gratitude with all of our heart?
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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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