Today, let us put an end to hardness of heart and seek to open our hearts to compassion and love.
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God’s covenantal love that he has made with us is eternal, will never break
In answer to the tortuous complaints, criticisms and judgement of the Pharisees, Jesus the Christ puts it all into context again — covenantal love.
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AUDIO: Celebration of the Second Sunday in Ordinary Time.
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AUDIO: Saturday vigil Mass celebration of the Second Sunday in Ordinary Time.
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God, present in our humanity, invites us into his divinity
No wonder this word, in the person of the Christ, comes particularly to sinners and those in need, and not the righteous.
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In the scriptures, God shows what being open to him can do
The Christ goes for broke — he takes care of business; he teaches and peers into the hearts of his “enemies” and shows them what faith can do.
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The word is so amazing when we hear God speak an ‘if’ to us.
How many “ifs” will open possibilities and doors and chances to grow, live, love, fin, discover, be transformed, and not harden, but find the voice of God giving and living within us and through us.
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God ‘walks in our shoes’ to understand us up close
He had to share everything — our blood, our flesh, our death. The redeeming of it all was again how he shared it, how he embraced it, how he renewed it.
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Jesus — the classic scapegoat — ‘carried the sins of all’
As they dumped everything upon him through their rejection, jealousy, condemnation, and the passion and death on the cross — as they scapegoated the Holy One — he showed how to be the scapegoat of love.
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Our faith is so present; it is the now, where we are at
What if someone were to write the story of our lives, beginning with right now — “in medias res”?
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