The first reading, an explosion of blessing and grace; and the Gospel, an explosion of condemnation and revilement — what a cataclysmic set of opposites today!
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Announce your faith without any concern
Faith was revealed once again!
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Today’s ugly Gospel story becomes a mirror for us
Especially of what others may think of us.
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Love is who we say God is
Then, Jesus went on to describe the kind of love and unity that should happen between a man and his wife.
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We ought to remain anointed in his truth
And so, in this context we can ask ourselves just how well we can identify the Christ in our lives, and identify the Father — our Father, who art in heaven!
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A raging burn of determination
Not unlike that man and his companions who could not get through the wall. Nothing and no one could stop them from going up on that roof and dropping him down from the heavens through that roof before the very presence of the Lord!
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Wisdom guides, fills us with the kingdom of God
As Jesus says so many times in the Gospel, “It’s here! It’s now! It is forever!”
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It’s too easy going through life, not practicing what we preach
That is the starting point, or the jumping off point; the real conversation includes all.
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The ‘hound of heaven’ never lets us go
Once again Jesus aptly describes that “kingdom stuff of God” that appears upside down and inside out, but when practiced reveals that grace and blessing stuff that is the gift of God.
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Sharing faith in Christ
Paul wanted so much for his fellow Jews to accept Jesus as the Christ, the messiah.
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