Our cry must also be: “I have seen the Lord!”
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Archbishop Gomez offers prayers on eve of DACA Supreme Court hearing
It is long past time for our leaders to do the right thing and welcome the Dreamers, helping them to make their own contribution to the American dream.
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Heroic Christianity, our calling
To become a saint, you need to take Jesus as the pathway for your life, living as a child of God, conforming your life — your thoughts and words, your actions and attitudes — more and more to the image of Jesus, the Son of God.
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Seminary is a time of conversion
Brothers, you have been called “according to his purpose,” called from the loving heart of the living God. Your vocation is a gift of God’s generous love, a sign of his mercy and love toward you.
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Grow in the spirit and set aside vanity
By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor “Vanity is the quicksand of reason.” — George Sand. Have you made out your will yet? Have you carefully decided what each child or survivor will receive when you have “gone to heaven”? Have […]
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A bishop in a time of renewal
So, my brother Alex, God has called you in this time and place, in this moment in the church. Today he consecrates you and appoints you to be a bishop — in a time of renewal and reform in the church.
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Love is the reason
In Christ’s passion and death, we see love that is patient and kind, love that bears all things and endures all things. On the cross, we see love that never fails, love so strong not even death can defeat it.
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Why we serve
Jesus came to serve and he gave his life serving others. We lead others by serving them. In our service of love, we grow closer and closer to Jesus Christ, until the day we can say, as St. Paul did, that is not we who serve, but Jesus who serves through us.
Continue readingA Lenten return to Jesus
In these 40 days of Lent, I want to call us — myself first of all — to deepen our sense of the mystery of our lives in Christ. I want us to try to go deeper in our personal conversion, deeper into the heart of the Gospels and the New Testament writings.
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Allow the love of Jesus to fill you and reshape the way you think and live
Today, Jesus speaks about love.It is clear he is not talking about a feeling, a noun. He is not describing a “thing,” but an action.
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