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Sometimes we find God’s truth and His ways unbelievable. We ask, “Why did He do that? Why did He choose me or that person?” God’s ways are not ours. His surpass ours in their perfection. One of the ways He expresses His perfection is in the way
Sometimes we are like the people in the first reading who hear God’s word and realize how far we are from the mark. Hopefully, we have encouragers in our lives as they did. Sometimes we are excited as were those in the gospel reading. However,
“Do whatever he tells you” are Mary’s last words recorded in the scriptures. She speaks these words to us as well. If we obey what Jesus tells us to do, we can expect results as the servants at the wedding feast did—perhaps not as spectacular a
What we fail to realize at times is that, when we were baptized, the Spirit of God not only fell on us but also came to dwell in us; and God the Father said to us and those around us, “This is my beloved Son, Daughter”. These readings are an in
It is one thing to say that Jesus is Lord. It is another to acknowledge Him as Lord and King in the sense that the scriptures were written. Our modern minds reject the notion of anyone with absolute authority and power. Yet this is who the Savi
The Church uses the readings to teach us God’s standards for family life—even among the messier things of family life: how one honors father and mother, how one treats spouse and children, how to love.Even if these readings do not describe you
“Lord, make us turn to you; let us see your face and we shall be saved”, the responsorial psalm proclaims. The face of God is the face of Jesus. Jesus is the light of the world. In that light we can see our lives and the world around us from Go
Happy Gaudete Sunday. Gaudete is Latin for rejoice. The second reading tells us to rejoice always—even when one doesn’t think the circumstances call for rejoicing. From a biblical perspective, joy, like peace, is something only found internally
God desires to take us from where we are, with whatever miseries and bondages we are experiencing, into the midst of His Kingdom. He is our deliverer, our redeemer. That is why He has throughout the ages sent human messengers to proclaim His de
The First Sunday of Advent begins a new liturgical year—the year in which the primary source for the gospels is Luke. The Church ended its liturgical year by urging us to be prepared for Christ’s second coming, to live our lives each day, each
If you were told that you were to have a king, and absolute monarch, in your life, would you want it to be Jesus is that King. Life goes better if we recognize that He is King and we desire His kingship.The Mass readings can be found here: Scr
Are you ready for the second coming of Christ? These scriptures seem to indicate that even the elect will not escape the calamities that are prophesied to happen before His return. We are called to be knowledgeable of what God has told us and
Many of us have decent relationships with God; however, few of us are trusting enough in God’s provision to do what the widows in these readings did, give everything they had to God and His representative. More amazing is that the widow of the
How many gods do you have in your life: money, power, position, or any of the others our world suggests that we should place before all else in our lives? Or do you place the LORD God first in your life? Do you have a loving relationship with H
Jesus came to heal and to free. That continues to be His role. Consider what inside you that needs to be healed. Where is your spiritual blindness? What is it that has you in bondage that you cannot be free to be the person that God not only cr
What is it you ask of Jesus? Is it something as self-serving as James and John’s request? Unfortunately, too often we ask God for what we want to satisfy our desires, not God’s. We want, power, prestige, recognition, authority, wealth, and at t
“[T]he wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, without uncertainty or insincerity.” (James 3:17, RSV2CE) Why do we so often seek the wisdom of this world and the things that this w
Our culture says that marriage is a matter of convenience rather than a covenant relationship established by God. Genuine marriage is between two parties who are committed to laying down their lives for each other.In Jesus’ day, the idea of a
Our God is a God of surprises. He surprised the Israelite leaders in the first reading. He surprised the disciples in the gospel reading. And He didn’t ask anyone’s permission to pull off His surprise. Nor did He care if what He did didn’t foll
The second reading calls us to account for our attitudes and actions, as does most of the Letter of James. He was a follower of Jesus; and surely, he observed the words and actions of the apostles as they jockeyed for position and attempted to
What do you say to Jesus when He, either directly or through His Church, tells you something you don’t want to hear? If you tell Him that this just can’t be the case, you are like Peter in the gospel. And Peter only a little while before had go
"There is no favouritism with God." (Romans 2:11, NJB) James tells us that favoritism and distinctions between believers is to be avoided. If God does show favoritism, it is for the vulnerable. And when He shows that favoritism, it is often don
Jesus told us that if we love Him we will keep His word. (cf. Jn 14:23). In the first reading Moses tells the people that they should not add or subtract from what God told him to tell them. Human nature is such that we would prefer to craft Go
These scriptures tell us it is time to make a decision as to whom we choose to follow—God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirt, or the world, the flesh, and the devil. The world can be the way we were taught to live, the way we lived in the past, or th
Mary models for us the life that Jesus calls us to live. She also models the reward that Jesus has in mind for us—eternal life with him. Mary’s assumption gives us hope that Jesus’ promise will be fulfilled for us.Though Mary’s assumption is n
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