Each one is a dress rehearsal for the total “Paschal Mystery” to be realized in our physical death and resurrection — the promise.
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Our Advent journey is almost over, but is there more?
What happened to us “along the way”? Was there any change? Is our goal or destination the point of this journey, or is the journey itself the important thing?
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The fulfillment of the law calls us to love, reconcile, heal, peacefully coexist with our neighbor
Jesus sees the law as “calling us to be holy as God is holy.”
Continue readingWe are his hearts, hands in this world
Do we bring our Gifts and in the giving discover that we have been far more gifted?
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Humility is like a door that keeps the mind, heart, spirit open
Pride is such a pernicious attitude and way of being that deceives at fundamental levels and helps to allow that deception to convince us of non-truth.
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She is us
We esteem and honor Mary for the singular privilege given to her by the call to bring God in the person of Jesus into the world in the Feast of the Incarnation — Christmas!
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Open this thing called your heart
Clearly, God entered into our world and our lives — and things, as they say, would never be the same.
Continue readingBorn wealthy, Bernard gave everything and himself to God
Listen to St. Bernard Catholic School eighth grade student Anthony Ramirez’s, 13, biography of our patron saint, St. Bernard of Clairvaux, recorded live during our 9:30 a.m. Mass on Sunday, Aug. 18, 2013.
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Be humble and become exalted
Far better to sit at the “lowest” place and then be invited by the host to come to a “higher” place than to choose the “highest” and be relegated to the “lowest” because someone more important has arrived.
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The treasure of faith and trust is worth more than any pirate’s gold
When we trust, and when we know with all our heart and soul that the promises of God are always good, and that his love is everlasting, we live with a generosity of heart that makes us new and alive.
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