Anyone can judge it, but a true disciple sees it with compassion and loves as Christ loves.
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This day, we enter fully into such woe
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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What could be more holy or wholesome than to walk with God?
And through it all, Jesus not only proclaimed the kingdom of God, but he gave his followers the “keys to the kingdom,” and showed them how to truly live life and love life. and make life a real way to find wholeness and holiness.
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Do we ever experience the voice of God clearly speaking to us in the ordinary?
Visions of prophets, a glorified transfiguration, bright lights, and voices — all streamed together to “call” the disciples deeper into the mystery of God revealed in Jesus.
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Loving with all of one’s self, one’s being is a different kind of love
It is a freeing love. It is the love of the cross. It is a love that cannot be conquered by hate. It is a love that can transform hate and even, some would say, change the world.
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Perhaps, God’s anger, words are designed to pull out a response in us
Maybe 40 days is just enough time for us if we really chew on all of this, play with it, seek through it, allow ourselves to be touched deeply by these stories, and then to discover God and God’s love through it all.
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God wants to form us into Christian warriors
Do you form warriors with easy, peaky, weaky words; or do you shout out commands to toughen and roughen them up?
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Christ’s transfiguration was their transformation — and it is ours
We are called to listen to him, for it is in that listening that we will be led along the same pathways of faith; and our hopes, too, will be realized in Christ.
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Biblical storytelling at its very best
What’s more, the murderous plot to destroy Jesus would come, but not just yet. It would be incubated for 33 years, and then it would be a communal tantrum of, yes, the jealous leaders — not just one king but many tantrum-filled adults.
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We must truly look to him, look at him, and discover his look of love at, for us
“God, who is rich in mercy, because of the great love he had for us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, brought us to life with Christ (by grace you have been saved).”
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