When we hear and sing those words, “Prepare ye the way of the Lord,” we know clearly what is and what was being said by those words, and what and how we must prepare right now.
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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!
Continue readingA brief commentary on death
King Antiochus faced his coming death with questions and answers that left him in dread.
Continue readingPrayer is a demonstration of our faith, hope
It is our praying and our constant willingness to engage and be engaged that keeps our spirit open and searching and seeking and waiting, and looking for that grace and love of God always present, but not always recognized on our part.
Continue readingThe ‘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.
Continue readingToday, the readings keep it ‘short and sweet’!
And as so many like to say at a moment like this, “Let the church say amen!”
Continue readingThe ‘greatest story ever told’ continues today
And that glory will have eternal meaning!
Continue readingGuarding what is ‘entrusted to us’ — the faith
It is up to us also to pay keen attention to the quality of our soil and its openness to hear that word of God and the teachings of Jesus.
Continue readingThrough Christ, we are on the threshold of a new, everlasting life
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 […]
Continue readingThe multiple things that can transform us with the word of Jesus
There is no harm in listening. There is no harm in hearing. And maybe, just maybe, we will learn.
And if not, if not convinced, what did we lose? A few minutes?
But what we might gain is even more valuable.
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