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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I am thankful
We have worked together. We have become more united — more one, and more the Body of Christ.
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We are a light in a lampstand that would give light to all
And because Jesus was always concerned that all would see and hear with the eyes and ears of the heart, he reiterated: “Anyone who has ears ought to hear” and they should “take care what you [they] hear.”
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Do we hear these stories today as the Good News?
Does God’s word continue, each day, to touch us and deepen our own wondrous conversions?
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This word would be spoken
This word would be spoken, and human and crucified and loving to the end, and resurrected and eternal and yours and mine, and there for all and forever.
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Your signs are Jonah and Nineveh — harden not your hearts
Your sign is Jonah. Your sign is Ninevah. Please. Harden not your hearts.
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Jesus as healer, restorer of life is the Jesus many seek today
The greatest healing throughout the Gospel goes to, and comes from, the center of the spirit in each of us.
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To not ‘know the Lord and Christ’ is a deprivation
It does not imply evil or wickedness or fault; it is just a terrible lack, especially when one finds out what they were missing.
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The host and the cup is the experience that brings us together
The host and the cup is the experience that brings us together and opens the many, many, many ways in the liturgy that the Lord feeds us, gives us drink — satisfying our deepest hungers and thirsts.
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The extraordinary power of God becomes ordinary every day in our lives
As we come back to Ordinary Time in the church year, we are called to see that the extraordinary power of God becomes ordinary every day in our lives.
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