Stand ready to answer God when He asks you if you are available for Him to become more present in your life and through you to the world Like Mary, may you willingly respond: Let what you have said be done to me! Fundamental Principles Today is the Feast of the Nativity of…[read more]
One must put new wine into new wineskins. Also, no one drinking old wine prefers new wine, for he says, “The old wine is good..” Luke 5: 38-9 Many years ago when first working with young people in formation situations, I became amazed at how quickly for them given ways of doing things became “traditions.”…[read more]
You will have in you the strength, based on God’s own glorious power, never to give in, but to bear anything joyfully, thanking the Father who has made it possible for you to join the saints and with them to inherit the light. Colossians 1: 11-12 For Sigmund Freud, true human maturity requires the ability…[read more]
When it was day, he went out to a deserted place. But the crowds continued to seek for him. They came up to him and tried to keep him from leaving them. He told them, “I must preach the good news about the kingdom of God in other towns as well. I have been commissioned…[read more]
So give encouragement to each other, and keep strengthening one another as you do already. 1 Thessalonians 5: 11 Paul tells the members of the Church of Thessaloniki that they are children of light and so “must not go on sleeping, as everyone else does, but stay wide awake and sober.” (vs. 5-6) Being children…[read more]
When those in the synagogue heard these things, they were all filled with rage. They stood up and drove him out of the town. Luke 4: 28-9 Why has the reaction of the people of Nazareth to Jesus so dramatically and suddenly changed? When Jesus first finishes reading from the scroll of Isaiah and telling…[read more]
But he said in reply, “Amen, I say to you, I do not know you.” Therefore, stay awake, for you know neither the day nor the hour. Matthew 25: 12-13 For those of us of a certain age, one of our earliest memories of Catholic catechesis may be the memorized answers to the first two…[read more]
Watch, therefore, because you do not know in what day your Lord is coming. Matthew 24: 42 As time passed after the death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus, without the expectation of his imminent return’s being realized, the community of Matthew and of Christian believers was exposed to more and more ridicule, and, as is…[read more]
Another reason why we constantly thank God for you is that as soon as you heard the message we brought to you as God’s message, you accepted it for what it really is, God’s and not some human thinking; and it is still a living power among you who believe it. 1 Thessalonians 2: 13…[read more]
We have not taken to preaching because we are deluded, or immoral, or trying to deceive anyone; it was God who decided that we were fit to be entrusted with the Good News, and when we are speaking we are not trying to please men but God, who can read our inmost thoughts. 1 Thessalonians…[read more]
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