[Therefore the Lord himself will give you this sign: the virgin shall be with child, and bear a son, and shall name him Emmanuel.] (Is. 7:14) Salvation is intentional. This seems like a “no brainer”, yet we can take it for granted and fail to consider its gravity. Already here in the […]
Read More[When the LORD saw him coming over to look at it more closely, God called out to him from the bush, “Moses! Moses!” He answered, “Here I am.” God said, “Come no nearer! Remove the sandals from your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground.] (Ex. 3:4-5) As Moses approaches […]
Read More[So he hired himself out to one of the local citizens who sent him to his farm to tend the swine. And he longed to eat his fill of the pods on which the swine fed, but nobody gave him any. Coming to his senses he thought, ‘How many of my father’s […]
Read More[“Therefore, I say to you, the Kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people that will produce its fruit.”] (Mt. 21:43) Jesus gives a pretty stern warning to His contemporary Jewish religious leaders. They who have been given so many opportunities to repent, have refused. They who have been […]
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Read More[Thus says the LORD: Cursed is the man who trusts in human beings, who seeks his strength in flesh, whose heart turns away from the LORD. He is like a barren bush in the desert that enjoys no change of season, But stands in a lava waste, a salt and empty earth. Blessed is the […]
Read More[The people of Judah and the citizens of Jerusalem said, “Come, let us contrive a plot against Jeremiah.“] (Jer. 18:18a) Jeremiah has been preaching repentance to the people of Judah and Jerusalem and they’ have had enough. He has called them out and brought to their attention their own sinfulness. Jeremiah has called them to […]
Read More[When Joseph awoke, he did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took his wife into his home.] (Mt. 1:24) Recounted in our Gospel today is, called by some, the Annunciation of St. Joseph. At this point Joseph has discovered that Mary is pregnant and he knows that the child is not […]
Read More[“Stop judging and you will not be judged.“] (Lk. 6:37a) Sad, comical, ironic, disheartening: many of us Christians have perfected the very thing Jesus told us not to do. We can be really great judgers. In a certain way this makes sense, since as Christians we’ve been blessed with Jesus’s teaching—know right from wrong. We […]
Read More[The Lord is my light and my salvation.] (Psalm 27:1a) During this Second Sunday of Lent we make this audacious claim with the Psalmist. Is He though? Is the Lord really my light and salvation? Do I believe the words I speak? In saying “The Lord is my light and my salvation”, we exclude any […]
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