Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. John 19: 25 Many years ago when my father was dying of esophogeal cancer, my cousin’s son, then a student in high school, would come to visit and sit on the floor next to…[read more]
Moses accordingly made a bronze serpent and mounted it on a pole, and whenever anyone who had been bitten by a serpent looked at the bronze serpent, he lived. Numbers 21: 9 Strangely enough, it can be very difficult for us to receive a gift. it is really much easier to receive what…[read more]
I was once a blasphemer and a persecutor and an arrogant man, but I have been mercifully treated because I acted out of ignorance in my unbelief. 1 Timothy 1: 13 A question that the above description gives rise to is whether we are arrogant because we are ignorant, or ignorant because we are arrogant.…[read more]
Put on, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, heartfelt compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, bearing with one another and forgiving one another, if one has a grievance against another; as the Lord has forgiven you, so must you also do. Colossians 3: 12-13 In today’s gospel Jesus tells us: “If you lend money…[read more]
Think of what is above, not of what is on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ your life appears, then you too will appear with him in glory. Colossians 3: 2-4 It has been said that every great author has one main idea which she…[read more]
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]
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