And, obviously a teaching story accounting for the absolute need for we little beings to change our ways — especially of sin and evil deeds — to make things right, and to benefit from good living and grace-filled living. Right?
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Being ready, being alert; opening eyes, ears, hearts to meet the Lord
Let us hope so! Let us plan on it! Let us finally prepare ourselves! Let us be ready with our alleluias!
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There is great purpose in God’s great blessings
This is, indeed, a story of significance, and then a boy of significance, and finally a future for a whole people of significance.
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How does one respond to an invitation to join God in a holy journey of faith?
How did Mary respond to this invite? She did not respond like Ahaz. No, indeed; rather, Mary said it simply, “Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord. May it be done to me according to your word.”
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Biblical miracles are the stuff of our lives
This is the great feast of incarnation. This is God coming into our humanity, God divinizing our humanity.
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The divinity of Jesus is our great hope
This is the great feast of incarnation. This is God coming into our humanity, God divinizing our humanity.
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Salvation comes from the law and the prophets
Once again, Jesus is criticizing those who are hard-hearted, who do not listen, who only judge, who criticize first this way and then that way, and who reject both the austerity of John and the celebratory welcoming of Jesus.
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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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In proclaiming God’s kingdom, his love gushes from him to us
And also to us? Me thinks that is so!
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Do we, like Mary’s ‘fiat!’, say yes to God’s grace and blessings?
For after all, Paul tells us quite clearly that we, too, have been filled with every spiritual blessing in the heavens.
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