These weekly reflections are what I believe the Holy Spirit gives me based on Sunday’s readings. I’m a day late recording this one and I thought that was because family was in town this weekend. But now I know the Holy Spirit had me wait for today’s Gospel reading. Amen – come Holy Spirit! That […]
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Live a Holy Life
Did you know we are called to live a holy life? In 2 Tim 1:9 we are told that, “He saved us and called us to a holy life.” How do we live a holy life? We are given the template in the Lenten practices of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. These are the building blocks, […]
The Season of Lent
Mature disciples of Jesus Christ are serious and intentional about legacy. The Season of Lent provides us with the potent fertilizer we need to grow the seeds of legacy that we plant. That fertilizer consists of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. Prayer purifies our intentions and relates everything we do to God. Fasting detaches us from […]
Peace on Earth
Peace. Isn’t that one of the main things we all want in our life, sometimes, desperately so? Peace, peace of mind, less worry and stress. But in Luke 12:51, we’re thrown a curve ball. Jesus says, “Do you think that I have come to establish peace on the earth? No, I tell you, but rather […]
A Conversion Journey
Lent calls us to repentance and conversion. Living stewardship is a conversion journey toward a mature discipleship. We are to accept the loss of all things, as St. Paul told the Philippians in Chapter 3:8 – things like our ideas of success and happiness and the urge to buy more and more stuff considering it […]