From the Sunday Note, with additional thoughts: Then Jesus said to them, “This night all of you will have your faith in me shaken, for it is written: I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be dispersed; but after I have been raised up, I shall go before you to…
To make the most of time
From the Sunday Note, with additional thoughts– Brothers and sisters: Those who are in the flesh cannot please God. But you are not in the flesh; on the contrary, you are in the spirit, if only the Spirit of God dwells in you. Whoever does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to…
Belief and movement toward God
From the Sunday Note, with additional thoughts– Our Gospel for this Sunday, John 9:1-41, “The man born blind,” is much longer than the average reading, too long to jam into even the most generously described “note” whether from the pastor or not! It is also magnificent—read all of it on your own this week and…
Why the way of the cross is OUR way of the cross
From the Sunday Note, with additional thoughts– Take no revenge and cherish no grudge against any of your people. You shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.” Leviticus 18:19 from our first reading “You have heard that it was said, You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy. But I say…
Our religious roots, our God’s lessons
From the Sunday Note, with additional thoughts– Jesus said to his disciples: “Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill. Amen, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or the smallest part of…
Internal integrity and external visibility–do I quiz myself?
From the Sunday Note, with additional thoughts… Jesus said to his disciples: “You are the salt of the earth. But if salt loses its taste, with what can it be seasoned? It is no longer good for anything but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot. You are the light of the world. A city…
Our Lord’s Day (-to-day) Job…
From the Sunday Note, with additional thoughts– When Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew to Galilee. He left Nazareth and went to live in Capernaum by the sea, in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali, that what had been said through Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled: Land of Zebulun and land…
Now and not yet…
From the Sunday Note, with additional thoughts– Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother, to the church of God that is in Corinth, to you who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be holy, with all those everywhere who call upon the…
Try imitating God’s ways with us…
From the Sunday Note, with additional thoughts– The shepherds went in haste to Bethlehem and found Mary and Joseph, and the infant lying in the manger. When they saw this, they made known the message that had been told them about this child. All who heard it were amazed by what had been told them…
On the lookout for nobody…
From the Sunday Note, with additional thoughts– When the angels went away from them to heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let us go, then, to Bethlehem to see this thing that has taken place, which the Lord has made known to us.” So they went in haste and found Mary and Joseph, and…