Do all you can to preserve the unity of the Spirit by the peace that binds you together. There is one Body, one Spirit, just as you were all called into one and the same hope when you were called. There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism, and one God who is father of…[read more]
Out of his infinite glory, may he give you the power through his Spirit for your hidden self to grow strong, so that Christ may live in your hearts through faith, and then, planted in love and built on love, you will with all the saints have strength to grasp the breadth and the length,…[read more]
You also should stand ready, because the Son of Man is coming at a time you do not expect. Luke 12: 40 On the news last evening there was a feature story on a young man’s process of undergoing rehabilitation for a severe addiction to heroin. When we first meet the young man, we see…[read more]
“You go! Look, I am sending you like lambs among wolves. Don’t carry a purse or bag or wear sandals. Don’t greet anyone on the road.” Luke 10: 3-4 On this feast of St. Luke, we read the commission of Jesus to the disciples to go and prepare the way for him. This is precisely…[read more]
And Jesus told them, “Watch out! Protect yourself from every form of greed! No one’s life is based on an abundance of possessions” Luke 12: 15 Today’s gospel passage begins with someone requesting that Jesus intervene in his dispute with his brother over their parents’ inheritance. Jesus, in his wisdom, refuses to do so, pointing…[read more]
You too have been stamped with the seal of the Holy Spirit of the Promise, the pledge of our inheritance which brings freedom for those whom God has taken for his own, to make his glory praised. Ephesians 1: 13-14 In the passage we read today from the Letter to the Ephesians, we hear twice-repeated…[read more]
Woe to you! You build tombs for the prophets. But your own ancestors killed them! Therefore you are witnesses to and collude with the deeds of your ancestors. They killed them, you build their tombs. Luke 11: 47-8 As we measure it, it has been a long time since Jesus charged the lawyers and the…[read more]
You cannot belong to Christ Jesus unless you crucify all self-indulgent passions and desires. Since the Spirit is our life, let us be directed by the Spirit. Galatians 5: 23-3 “Woe also to you lawyers! You pile loads on people that are hard to carry, and yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of…[read more]
The Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish. But your insides are full of greed and wickedness! Fools! Didn’t the one who made the outside also make the inside? So instead, give that which is inside as alms. And look! Everything is clean for you! Luke 11:…[read more]
The Ninevites will rise at the judgment with this generation and will condemn it. They repented at the preaching of Jonah. Look, something greater than Jonah is here! Luke 11: 32 In the verses immediately preceding the selection for today’s gospel, Luke recounts the words of a woman who shouts to Jesus from the crowd:…[read more]
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